A Whole New Life Back In An Old Place

By Emily Carol

Chapter 25

Not So Fast

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Disclaimer: I'm 14 years old and you seem to think I own Gilmore Girls. What are you on?

Summary: For a reason unknown to anyone but herself Rory Gilmore fled her life with no trace when she was 20. It's 12 years later and she's back in Stars Hollow with a whole new look and personality to see how life went without her, positive she won't be recognized as Leah Haden. Until she realizes, maybe she never wanted to unrecognizable in the first place.

Rating- PG - slight violence

Genre- General/Mystery(ish)

A/N- Thanks Reviewers!

Fire and Rain1 - Hey! Thanks for reading my story, I'm glad you like it. Although you have to keep in mind that Jess has grown up a lot, he's 32-33 now so he's not so much of a rebel teenager.

smile1 - Yeah, I know it's not one of my best, it was basically setting stuff up.

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Rory sat waiting for the plane to board patiently as she looked around at all the people taking this early morning flight. She only took quick glances but she felt as though people were staring at her.

But what she didn't know was that two people were.

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A couple hours later her plane landed in San Francisco. She wandered around the airport looking for a bus stop. Unaware that two people followed her.

Her and her two followers got on a bus leading into San Francisco by some motels.

Getting off at a stop one of the followers stopped following her physically, but kept one eye on her. The other walked to the phone booth.

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Jess dialed Luke and Lorelai's number quickly. "Hello?" Luke asked.

"Hey Uncle Luke," Jess said.

"Jess! Jess, what are you doing? You left a message saying you were going to San Francisco," Luke said.

"And that's where I am, how's Jennifer?" Jess asked. Knowing she had locked herself in Rory's room last he heard.

"She's not coming out until Rory comes home," Luke said.

"Okay," Jess said. "Bye Luke." And he hung up the phone.

Rory came out of the motel office then and walked to one of the rooms.

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Rory sat on the motel bed hugging the sweatshirt she had found at home. It was Jess's. It was black and read Venice Beach in yellow writing. It had been on the couch and she'd picked it up before she left. It was her only piece of Jess that she had.

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Jess walked up to the door and went to knock when he noticed the door was slightly ajar.

He pushed it open.

Rory sat on the bed in the dark motel room hugging something. His sweatshirt.

"You stole my sweatshirt," Jess said walking farther into the room.

"Jess," Rory said standing up abruptly. "Why are you here?"

"You stole my sweatshirt," He said.

"I'm serious Jess," Rory said.

"I came to get you to come home," Jess said.

"There's nothing at home for me," Rory said sitting back down on the bed.

Jess sat down next to her, "Yes there is. There's Lorelai and there's Jennifer. You know that Jennifer's locked herself in her room and refuses to come out until you get home?"

Rory shook her head.

"Rory," Jess said. "I don't know why you left again."

"Because I was scared," Rory said a single tear falling down her cheek. "Matthew's still out there and he'll come after me and if you try to protect me again, you could die."

"Rory," Jess said. "If I died like that it would be because I loved you. Because I do love you Rory."

"I love you too Jess," Rory said.

"Then why don't you come back?" Jess asked.

"Because I don't want to be hurt again," Rory said. "You hurt me when you left."

"And you hurt me when you left," Jess said.

"I did?" Rory asked.

"Yes," Jess said.

"I'll go," Rory said.

Jess smiled. He grabbed her bag that lay on the bed, "Let's go home."

A familiar voice filled the room, "Not so fast."

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A/N- Heehee, cliffhanger! Hope you enjoyed, R&R!