A/N I'm back procrastinating homework once again. I also have a monster
cold so if my typing errors are worse than usual you know why. I hope you
enjoy. Feedback appreciated.
Rory tugs on Jess' sleeve as he walks towards the phone.
"Jess." She says quietly.
"What?"
"Put down the phone."
"Why?"
"Well, we just found out that we're going to be parents like a minute ago, don't you think we could take a little while to let it sink in." Rory smiles faintly.
"Oh." Jess replies, biting his bottom lip. "Sure. I just figured you'd want to tell your mom first thing."
"Well I do, Jess. I'm just not really up for the three hour phone call that's going to proceed me telling her......besides this is something I should tell her in person."
Jess smiles at Rory, "If you wanted to go home for the weekend, you should have just said so."
Rory laughs, wrapping her arms around Jess waist, "You don't mind?"
"Not at all, we can't leave until Saturday though, I said I'd work Friday to make up for taking off today."
Rory nods, "Ok."
Jess puts the phone back on its stand and Pulls Rory closer to him, "So..."
"I'm pregnant."
Jess scoffs in disbelief, "Yeah, I'm going to be a father."
Rory pulls back to look Jess in the eye, "And a good one too."
Jess shakes his head, breaking their eye contact, "I don't know about that."
Rory puts a hand to Jess' cheek, forcing him to look at her, "Jess you're going to be a great dad."
Jess sighs, "But what if I'm not. You know studies show that most fathers end up just like their fathers, and look at my father, look at the life I've led."
"Jess, you're nothing like your dad, and look at Jimmy now.....he's learned from his mistakes, he's got a family and a business....Yes he saw the errors of his ways later in life, but you Jess, you've turned yourself around already. You're 23 and you have a job, a good one, a-and now, you have a family," Rory smiles, wiping a tear from her eye.
Jess runs his fingers through his hair, "I don't want to screw this baby up, Rory. I don't."
"You're not going to, you're great with kids."
"How would you know?" Jess replies with frustrations.
"I've seen you with Lily, with Georgia."
"That doesn't count, they're older."
"Jess, you're going to be fine, we're in this together."
"I know, I just---"
Rory cuts Jess off with a kiss, "Jess, it's going to be ok, I know that we could have used a little more time thinking this over, but it's too late now, we can't do anything about it......well we could but I-I"
"Rory, Stop." Jess replies pulling Rory towards him. "Don't even say it."
"Jess just don't write yourself off as a bad father before you've even gotten a chance to see what it's like."
"I'm sorry." Jess buries his head in Rory's hair, "I'm just scared, I guess."
Rory sighs, "So am I, terrified actually."
"Really?"
Rory nods, "I mean, there's so much to think about; how is this going to affect my job, can we really fit another person in this place, bottle or breast, preschool or daycare---"
"Ror, I think you're getting ahead of yourself, I think we both just need to calm down."
Rory nods, squeezing Jess tightly.
Jess laughs, "Like you said, we just found this out a minute ago, we should just take it all in and save all the freaking out for later."
"Well we found out more like 10 minutes ago, now." Rory mumbles.
"Even so, I think what we need right now is to just chill."
Rory sighs, "Yeah."
"Why don't we hit the couch, put some tv on, just not think about this right now."
"Sounds like a plan." Rory grins.
"You sit, I'll get snacks, do you want anything?"
"Umm, a peanut butter sandwich."
"Make that two, why Miss Gilmore I must say you do have fine taste." Jess replies, pulling bread out of the fridge.
Rory giggles, "Why thank you but actually it's Mrs. Mariano."
"Heaven's to Betsy, are you telling me that some high class city boy's gone stole your heart?" Jess replies mock fanning himself.
"Stole more than that." Rory smirks wildly.
Jess laughs, "Ok, that has gotten out of control."
"What?" Rory replies innocently, "This?" Rory broadens her smirk. "I learned from the best.
"Yeah, but you've exceeded the master and its creepy." Jess says, carrying the plates over to Rory.
"It is not."
"Yes it is, let's just hope this baby doesn't pick it up."
Taking her sandwich from Jess, Rory replies, "I don't know, I think it'd be cute, our little 4 year old going off to preschool with a nice big smirk on their face."
"Nope, believe me it gets you in more trouble than it's worth."
"Whatever you say, Jess."
"Eat."
"I am."
"No you're talking and pulling apart your sandwich that's not eating."
Rory giggles, "You're funny when you're bossy."
"I am not being bossy."
"Yes you are, but its cute, really."
Jess sighs, "You're unbelievable."
Rory laughs, turning on the tv.
Jess watches her intently as she flips from channel to channel, turning every so often to show him her quickly disappearing sandwich.
"Jess?"
"Yeah?" Jess replies, coming out of his stupor.
"Is there anything you wanted to watch?"
"No, I really don't care."
Rory watches Jess, "You're thinking about it aren't you."
"About what?"
"The thing we're not supposed to be thinking about right now."
"No." Jess lies.
"Oh."
Jess relents, "I can't help it, how can I not think about it."
"I know." Rory replies with a nod, shutting off the tv.
"This is huge."
"Yeah, we're going to be parents."
"Yeah....to the same kid."
Rory laughs, "Well I would hope so."
"I just never saw us getting here." Jess replies hoarsely.
"Really?"
"I guess I wake up every morning waiting for you not to be there, waiting to wake up from this dream. It's just so hard to believe that here we are married, and having a baby."
"Yeah, who'd have thought?" Rory smiles.
"Not me." Jess grins.
"Me neither."
Jess sighs, "This is really happening, isn't it."
"Yeah."
Jess' eyes go wide as they focus on Rory's stomach, "T-this is our kid."
"Yeah."
"We...made it, you and I we....."
"We're creators.
"Wow." Jess breathes in deeply. "A-and you're going to be---"
"Pregnant."
"Yeah but, you're going to...."
"Give birth." Rory replies, her face turning white.
Jess' eyes flicker, "Come here."
Rory climbs onto his lap.
"That's not what I was going to say, you know." Jess whispers into her ear.
Rory looks up at Jess, "What were you going to say?"
"That you're going to be a beautiful mother."
"Really?" Rory blushes.
Jess's hand sweeps across her cheek, "You're amazing Rory, you're going to be the mom that every other kid in town wishes was theirs.....just like Lorelai."
Rory eyes Jess warmly, "I Love you."
"Love you too."
Rory nestles into Jess' lap, "You know, you make really good peanut butter sandwiches."
"Well I've had a lot of practice, when you're left home alone every day from the time you're five you learn quick how to make a sandwich."
"That'll come in really handy you know, so just remember 3-4 years down the line, you're in charge of making the lunches."
"I'll keep that in mind....hey do you want to watch cartoons."
Rory laughs, "Sure, why not.....we should probably familiarize ourselves with them now."
Jess smirks, "You say that like you don't stay up until 11 to watch reruns of sailor moon."
"Sailor moon is not a cartoon....it's an epic!" Rory replies defensively.
"What ever you say." Jess replies giving Rory a squeeze.
Rory squeals as Jess lies down, taking her with him.
Wrapping his arms around her waist, Jess asks, "So what our we going to watch."
"Hmmm.....there's sponge bob or Ren and Stimpy."
"Ren And Stimpy!" Rory and Jess say simultaneously.
"Well that's decided." Rory replies, hitting channel 33 on the remote and nestling into Jess' Chest.
"Now pay attention kid, this is what is known as a classic..."
******Saturday Morning: 11am
*Rory and Jess are in their car on their way to Stars Hollow.
Rory is staring out the window, her feet tapping along to the music.
"How you feeling?" Jess asks.
"Fine, not too nauseous at the moment."
"That's what I like to hear." Jess grins.
Rory sighs happily, "Hey Jess?"
"Huh."
Rory smiles at him, "Can you picture my mom as a grandmother?"
Jess scoffs, "I'm trying avoid it."
Rory laughs, "Come on I'm serious."
"So am I, do you know how loud an image that is, and that's just a mental image....once this kid is here, it's going be a thousand times louder." Jess raises an eyebrow at his wife.
"Jess."
"Rory, she's going to be a great grandparent, I promise you."
"And Luke?" Rory smirks.
"God, that's an even scarier thought, he'll probably have the kid taking lunch orders by their second birthday."
Rory shakes her head, "No he won't. He's going to be a big softy."
Jess shakes his head back at Rory, "He was never a softy with me."
"But you're you, he doesn't like you, this kid is part me, he loves me, therefore vicariously he's going cuddle this kid to death."
"Again I just don't see Luke being the cuddling type."
Rory rolls her eyes, "That's not what my mom says."
"Ew. I can't believe you just said that. I can't believe you two talk about that stuff, it's weird."
Rory laughs, "We don't talk about that stuff, Mom just told me that whenever you started in on Luke I should that's not what my mom says, because it sounds kind of dirty."
"You two are unbelievable."
"Why thank you!"
"Anytime."
"Know what?"
"What?"
"I'm glad we've found a name to refer to the baby as, so we don't have to keep saying it all the time."
"Yeah, replacing it with kid, was ingenious." Jess roles his eyes.
"Don't do that. The baby can sense you rolling your eyes at me."
"Ror, how many times do I have to tell you that the baby is the size of an apple right now, I'm pretty sure it can't sense my eye movement."
"Well maybe we have a superhuman baby that can."
"Well then, I guess I've just screwed this kid up for life."
"I guess so." Rory smirks.
*10 minutes later:
"Well we're here." Jess sighs pulling into the driveway.
Rory grins.
Jess gets out of the car as Lorelai runs outside.
"You're here! I haven't seen you two in a century." Lorelai squeals.
"More like 3 weeks." Jess mumbles.
"Shoosh." Lorelai replies giving him a hug. "So how was Italy? Did you bring pictures....slides perhaps?"
Rory looks at Jess and then back at her mother, "Oh, well we did, but um we forgot them at home."
"You forgot them? You went to Italy the most beautiful country in the world and forgot the pictures at home, how could you forget to bring pictures of the most incredible place on the planet?!"
"Well." Rory smiles at her mother.
"Ok, when you called and said you didn't bring biscotti back, I understood, b/c I figured you were lying and just ate it all while taking care of mr. 3 week flu over there."
"It was two weeks actually."
"Whatever, I'm still upset, I wanted to see pictures and you forgot because you're so busy, no biscotti and now no pict---"
"I'm pregnant." Rory bursts.
"See no pictures and now you tell me that you're----you're pregnant?"
Rory nods.
"You're pregnant!"
Rory nods again.
"Oh my God!" Lorelai screams hugging Rory.
"That's what we said." Jess mumbles.
"Oh, so this was a surprise then." Lorelai grins, hugging Jess.
"A good surprise, but a surprise nonetheless."
"Well those tend to run in our family." Lorelai shrugs.
"Really? Had no idea about that one."
Lorelai beams at Rory, "But surprises are the best kind."
"Thanks mom."
Lorelai's eyes go wide, "Well come on we have to go tell Luke, and then Sookie!"
"Oh mom?"
"Yes sweets?"
"You were right about the biscotti."
Lorelai throws her hands up in the air, "Water under the bridge, babe....I'm going to be a grandma.....and you're going to be a mom!" Lorelai starts to cry.
"Oh no, not another one, come on no more crying."
Lorelai sniffles, "Hey she's allowed to cry she has a hormonal imbalance from carrying you're kid around all day and I gave birth to her so I can cry if I want to."
"See I told you, the name'd catch on." Jess smirks at Rory.
Lorelai glances back at Jess, "What?"
Rory hooks arms with Lorelai, "Forget it. He just doesn't want you to cry because if you cry he may start crying."
Lorelai snickers, "You're telling me he's been crying?"
"Since the day we found out."
"Which was?"
"Wednesday."
"Not crying, tearing maybe, and I think it's justified." Jess replies defensively, walking next to Lorelai.
Lorelai smiles at Jess, patting him on the back she says, "You just keep telling yourself that."
A/N That's my update for now kind of short, but I didn't want to go another three weeks with out sending something out into the void. So here you go I'll be back prob. In another two weeks with an update. ( please send me feedback.
Rory tugs on Jess' sleeve as he walks towards the phone.
"Jess." She says quietly.
"What?"
"Put down the phone."
"Why?"
"Well, we just found out that we're going to be parents like a minute ago, don't you think we could take a little while to let it sink in." Rory smiles faintly.
"Oh." Jess replies, biting his bottom lip. "Sure. I just figured you'd want to tell your mom first thing."
"Well I do, Jess. I'm just not really up for the three hour phone call that's going to proceed me telling her......besides this is something I should tell her in person."
Jess smiles at Rory, "If you wanted to go home for the weekend, you should have just said so."
Rory laughs, wrapping her arms around Jess waist, "You don't mind?"
"Not at all, we can't leave until Saturday though, I said I'd work Friday to make up for taking off today."
Rory nods, "Ok."
Jess puts the phone back on its stand and Pulls Rory closer to him, "So..."
"I'm pregnant."
Jess scoffs in disbelief, "Yeah, I'm going to be a father."
Rory pulls back to look Jess in the eye, "And a good one too."
Jess shakes his head, breaking their eye contact, "I don't know about that."
Rory puts a hand to Jess' cheek, forcing him to look at her, "Jess you're going to be a great dad."
Jess sighs, "But what if I'm not. You know studies show that most fathers end up just like their fathers, and look at my father, look at the life I've led."
"Jess, you're nothing like your dad, and look at Jimmy now.....he's learned from his mistakes, he's got a family and a business....Yes he saw the errors of his ways later in life, but you Jess, you've turned yourself around already. You're 23 and you have a job, a good one, a-and now, you have a family," Rory smiles, wiping a tear from her eye.
Jess runs his fingers through his hair, "I don't want to screw this baby up, Rory. I don't."
"You're not going to, you're great with kids."
"How would you know?" Jess replies with frustrations.
"I've seen you with Lily, with Georgia."
"That doesn't count, they're older."
"Jess, you're going to be fine, we're in this together."
"I know, I just---"
Rory cuts Jess off with a kiss, "Jess, it's going to be ok, I know that we could have used a little more time thinking this over, but it's too late now, we can't do anything about it......well we could but I-I"
"Rory, Stop." Jess replies pulling Rory towards him. "Don't even say it."
"Jess just don't write yourself off as a bad father before you've even gotten a chance to see what it's like."
"I'm sorry." Jess buries his head in Rory's hair, "I'm just scared, I guess."
Rory sighs, "So am I, terrified actually."
"Really?"
Rory nods, "I mean, there's so much to think about; how is this going to affect my job, can we really fit another person in this place, bottle or breast, preschool or daycare---"
"Ror, I think you're getting ahead of yourself, I think we both just need to calm down."
Rory nods, squeezing Jess tightly.
Jess laughs, "Like you said, we just found this out a minute ago, we should just take it all in and save all the freaking out for later."
"Well we found out more like 10 minutes ago, now." Rory mumbles.
"Even so, I think what we need right now is to just chill."
Rory sighs, "Yeah."
"Why don't we hit the couch, put some tv on, just not think about this right now."
"Sounds like a plan." Rory grins.
"You sit, I'll get snacks, do you want anything?"
"Umm, a peanut butter sandwich."
"Make that two, why Miss Gilmore I must say you do have fine taste." Jess replies, pulling bread out of the fridge.
Rory giggles, "Why thank you but actually it's Mrs. Mariano."
"Heaven's to Betsy, are you telling me that some high class city boy's gone stole your heart?" Jess replies mock fanning himself.
"Stole more than that." Rory smirks wildly.
Jess laughs, "Ok, that has gotten out of control."
"What?" Rory replies innocently, "This?" Rory broadens her smirk. "I learned from the best.
"Yeah, but you've exceeded the master and its creepy." Jess says, carrying the plates over to Rory.
"It is not."
"Yes it is, let's just hope this baby doesn't pick it up."
Taking her sandwich from Jess, Rory replies, "I don't know, I think it'd be cute, our little 4 year old going off to preschool with a nice big smirk on their face."
"Nope, believe me it gets you in more trouble than it's worth."
"Whatever you say, Jess."
"Eat."
"I am."
"No you're talking and pulling apart your sandwich that's not eating."
Rory giggles, "You're funny when you're bossy."
"I am not being bossy."
"Yes you are, but its cute, really."
Jess sighs, "You're unbelievable."
Rory laughs, turning on the tv.
Jess watches her intently as she flips from channel to channel, turning every so often to show him her quickly disappearing sandwich.
"Jess?"
"Yeah?" Jess replies, coming out of his stupor.
"Is there anything you wanted to watch?"
"No, I really don't care."
Rory watches Jess, "You're thinking about it aren't you."
"About what?"
"The thing we're not supposed to be thinking about right now."
"No." Jess lies.
"Oh."
Jess relents, "I can't help it, how can I not think about it."
"I know." Rory replies with a nod, shutting off the tv.
"This is huge."
"Yeah, we're going to be parents."
"Yeah....to the same kid."
Rory laughs, "Well I would hope so."
"I just never saw us getting here." Jess replies hoarsely.
"Really?"
"I guess I wake up every morning waiting for you not to be there, waiting to wake up from this dream. It's just so hard to believe that here we are married, and having a baby."
"Yeah, who'd have thought?" Rory smiles.
"Not me." Jess grins.
"Me neither."
Jess sighs, "This is really happening, isn't it."
"Yeah."
Jess' eyes go wide as they focus on Rory's stomach, "T-this is our kid."
"Yeah."
"We...made it, you and I we....."
"We're creators.
"Wow." Jess breathes in deeply. "A-and you're going to be---"
"Pregnant."
"Yeah but, you're going to...."
"Give birth." Rory replies, her face turning white.
Jess' eyes flicker, "Come here."
Rory climbs onto his lap.
"That's not what I was going to say, you know." Jess whispers into her ear.
Rory looks up at Jess, "What were you going to say?"
"That you're going to be a beautiful mother."
"Really?" Rory blushes.
Jess's hand sweeps across her cheek, "You're amazing Rory, you're going to be the mom that every other kid in town wishes was theirs.....just like Lorelai."
Rory eyes Jess warmly, "I Love you."
"Love you too."
Rory nestles into Jess' lap, "You know, you make really good peanut butter sandwiches."
"Well I've had a lot of practice, when you're left home alone every day from the time you're five you learn quick how to make a sandwich."
"That'll come in really handy you know, so just remember 3-4 years down the line, you're in charge of making the lunches."
"I'll keep that in mind....hey do you want to watch cartoons."
Rory laughs, "Sure, why not.....we should probably familiarize ourselves with them now."
Jess smirks, "You say that like you don't stay up until 11 to watch reruns of sailor moon."
"Sailor moon is not a cartoon....it's an epic!" Rory replies defensively.
"What ever you say." Jess replies giving Rory a squeeze.
Rory squeals as Jess lies down, taking her with him.
Wrapping his arms around her waist, Jess asks, "So what our we going to watch."
"Hmmm.....there's sponge bob or Ren and Stimpy."
"Ren And Stimpy!" Rory and Jess say simultaneously.
"Well that's decided." Rory replies, hitting channel 33 on the remote and nestling into Jess' Chest.
"Now pay attention kid, this is what is known as a classic..."
******Saturday Morning: 11am
*Rory and Jess are in their car on their way to Stars Hollow.
Rory is staring out the window, her feet tapping along to the music.
"How you feeling?" Jess asks.
"Fine, not too nauseous at the moment."
"That's what I like to hear." Jess grins.
Rory sighs happily, "Hey Jess?"
"Huh."
Rory smiles at him, "Can you picture my mom as a grandmother?"
Jess scoffs, "I'm trying avoid it."
Rory laughs, "Come on I'm serious."
"So am I, do you know how loud an image that is, and that's just a mental image....once this kid is here, it's going be a thousand times louder." Jess raises an eyebrow at his wife.
"Jess."
"Rory, she's going to be a great grandparent, I promise you."
"And Luke?" Rory smirks.
"God, that's an even scarier thought, he'll probably have the kid taking lunch orders by their second birthday."
Rory shakes her head, "No he won't. He's going to be a big softy."
Jess shakes his head back at Rory, "He was never a softy with me."
"But you're you, he doesn't like you, this kid is part me, he loves me, therefore vicariously he's going cuddle this kid to death."
"Again I just don't see Luke being the cuddling type."
Rory rolls her eyes, "That's not what my mom says."
"Ew. I can't believe you just said that. I can't believe you two talk about that stuff, it's weird."
Rory laughs, "We don't talk about that stuff, Mom just told me that whenever you started in on Luke I should that's not what my mom says, because it sounds kind of dirty."
"You two are unbelievable."
"Why thank you!"
"Anytime."
"Know what?"
"What?"
"I'm glad we've found a name to refer to the baby as, so we don't have to keep saying it all the time."
"Yeah, replacing it with kid, was ingenious." Jess roles his eyes.
"Don't do that. The baby can sense you rolling your eyes at me."
"Ror, how many times do I have to tell you that the baby is the size of an apple right now, I'm pretty sure it can't sense my eye movement."
"Well maybe we have a superhuman baby that can."
"Well then, I guess I've just screwed this kid up for life."
"I guess so." Rory smirks.
*10 minutes later:
"Well we're here." Jess sighs pulling into the driveway.
Rory grins.
Jess gets out of the car as Lorelai runs outside.
"You're here! I haven't seen you two in a century." Lorelai squeals.
"More like 3 weeks." Jess mumbles.
"Shoosh." Lorelai replies giving him a hug. "So how was Italy? Did you bring pictures....slides perhaps?"
Rory looks at Jess and then back at her mother, "Oh, well we did, but um we forgot them at home."
"You forgot them? You went to Italy the most beautiful country in the world and forgot the pictures at home, how could you forget to bring pictures of the most incredible place on the planet?!"
"Well." Rory smiles at her mother.
"Ok, when you called and said you didn't bring biscotti back, I understood, b/c I figured you were lying and just ate it all while taking care of mr. 3 week flu over there."
"It was two weeks actually."
"Whatever, I'm still upset, I wanted to see pictures and you forgot because you're so busy, no biscotti and now no pict---"
"I'm pregnant." Rory bursts.
"See no pictures and now you tell me that you're----you're pregnant?"
Rory nods.
"You're pregnant!"
Rory nods again.
"Oh my God!" Lorelai screams hugging Rory.
"That's what we said." Jess mumbles.
"Oh, so this was a surprise then." Lorelai grins, hugging Jess.
"A good surprise, but a surprise nonetheless."
"Well those tend to run in our family." Lorelai shrugs.
"Really? Had no idea about that one."
Lorelai beams at Rory, "But surprises are the best kind."
"Thanks mom."
Lorelai's eyes go wide, "Well come on we have to go tell Luke, and then Sookie!"
"Oh mom?"
"Yes sweets?"
"You were right about the biscotti."
Lorelai throws her hands up in the air, "Water under the bridge, babe....I'm going to be a grandma.....and you're going to be a mom!" Lorelai starts to cry.
"Oh no, not another one, come on no more crying."
Lorelai sniffles, "Hey she's allowed to cry she has a hormonal imbalance from carrying you're kid around all day and I gave birth to her so I can cry if I want to."
"See I told you, the name'd catch on." Jess smirks at Rory.
Lorelai glances back at Jess, "What?"
Rory hooks arms with Lorelai, "Forget it. He just doesn't want you to cry because if you cry he may start crying."
Lorelai snickers, "You're telling me he's been crying?"
"Since the day we found out."
"Which was?"
"Wednesday."
"Not crying, tearing maybe, and I think it's justified." Jess replies defensively, walking next to Lorelai.
Lorelai smiles at Jess, patting him on the back she says, "You just keep telling yourself that."
A/N That's my update for now kind of short, but I didn't want to go another three weeks with out sending something out into the void. So here you go I'll be back prob. In another two weeks with an update. ( please send me feedback.