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Note: The episode or two in which Jess returned to Stars Hollow for his car never happened in this story.

Lorelai picked up the phone to find a crying noise on the other end. "Rory?...Michel? Who is-"

"Michel?" asked Rory a little amused despite her own crying.

"Didn't I tell you about that time he totally broke down? Rory? Hun, what's wrong?"

"He's," she stopped to snuffle, "he's, h-he's back Mom," Rory finally got out.

"He, he, he who?" Lorelai asked, trying to make her daughter smile while still pressing for information at the same time.

"J-... J- J-..." Rory tried to release his name from her mouth, but it wouldn't come.

"Who? John, Jeremiah, James, Joey, Jes-"Lorelai stopped suddenly as she realized who Rory was talking about. Rory's sobs grew louder in her ear. "Jess? He's back? Like at Yale back?"

Rory nodded, forgetting with the comfort of Lorelai's voice that her mother couldn't see her.

"Rory?"

"Yeah, Jess is here," Rory managed to get through the sentence and Lorelai knew that that meant that now Rory was ready to rant and fume.

"How could he do this to me? Here. At Yale. A janitor. Does he want to fix everything? Does he think he can? Does he think..." Rory gulped as her sobs began to return to her, "Does he think, that I... I still love him?" By the time Rory reached the last two words, her voice had become almost nothing, and her crying overtook her immediately after the words left her mouth.

"Ah... baby... come home for a little while... we'll sort things out," Lorelai kindly encouraged.

Rory made a sound that vaguely resembled "Yes".

"I love you hun. Come on home."

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