Title: A Few More Fights, With a Few Less Tights.
Spoilers: everything through episode 4 x 21, Last Week Fights, This Week Tights
Pairings: I'm a lit, with a dash of javajunkieness
Rating: PG-13 just to be on the safe side
Disclaimer: I do not own Gilmore Girls or any of the other characters, I do however plan to rectify the horrible situation the writers made out of the season 4 finale by changing things before they go wrong. I hope you enjoy, feedback is much appreciated. Also this is my first fic, so if it's horrible let me know.
Summary: An alteration to 4.21 episode can make all the difference in the world.
A/N: Sorry for the delay, life has been keeping me busy and when I wanted to post this a few days ago my computer was hiding the file from me.
Jess opened the door to the apartment and stopped. He closed the door and leaned against it. Opened it again and took a step outside. Backed up into the apartment again and slammed the door. "Pull it together." He told himself firmly.
Luke and Lorelai glanced over at Rory who quickly fled the diner.
"What was that all about?" Luke asked Lorelai hoping she had more of a story than he did.
Lorelai sighed, "I think it's called love." And then realizing what she said quickly added, "oh my God, Luke, do something!"
Luke gave her a bewildered look, not sure if he was supposed to go upstairs and throw Jess out the window or pour Lorelai more coffee. "What am I supposed to do?!?" he asked flustered and turning slightly red in the face.
"I don't know," she said and then looking down at her empty cup said, "pour the coffee and then we'll figure something out."
Luke looked a little relieved and poured her another cup of coffee and sighed, he leaned against the counter and folded his arms over his chest. Before he could say anything else he heard the door to the apartment slam, then slam again, and again. He looked toward the stairs as did Lorelai. "I'll be right back," he said as he quickly closed the distance between himself and the staircase and bolted upstairs.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOIN' TO THE DOOR?!?" Luke yelled when he was halfway up the stairs.
"Nothing!" Jess yelled back as he opened up the door again and stood in the doorway still not sure what to do.
"Inside now." Luke said as he made it to the top of the stairs, and shoved Jess back inside and slammed the door behind them. "What is going on? What did you do now?"
"Nothing," Jess said as he sulked and glared at Luke.
"Well then why did Rory just run out of the diner and why did you just give the hinges a workout?"
"I thought they were rusty." Jess replied sarcastically, "and she left on her own, I didn't do anything. Apparently it's my freakin' turn."
"What?" Luke asked completely confused.
Jess sighed, he really didn't want to go into this but he also knew that he needed a suggestion. "She wants me to prove myself and my feelings." He said through gritted teeth.
Luke tried to hide his smile. "So you wanted to give her a door?" he asked.
Jess glared harder at Luke and then threw his hands up in the air, "Forget it. Just forget it." He said as he began to pace around the kitchen of the apartment.
"No." Luke said as he continued to try to hide his expression. "you need help."
"No more self help books," Jess said simply as he pretended to look for something in the fridge.
"Okay," Luke said and then began his story, "so let me tell you the story of my friend Phil, who was in love with this woman, um, Sarah, and so Phil made a lot of..."
Jess cut him off, "not Phil again, and wasn't it Judy, not Sarah?"
Luke looked at him, "I can't remember, but the point is," Luke paused.
"Great, you forgot the point." Jess laughed bitterly.
Before Luke could say anything else Lorelai knocked on the apartment door. "Did you want me to take orders while you are gone because you forgot to leave me the little note pad thingy and I need that pen that you keep behind your ear and if you want the sock might be able to help me too." She said through the door.
Luke opened the door quickly, "I'll take the orders just tell them to wait."
"But the people will starve and then there will be dead bodies in the diner and no one will eat here and we will all be forced to go to Al's" she said matter-of-factly.
"Lorelai, I'm busy." Luke said gruffly. Lorelai nodded.
"I know." She said slyly, and then lowered her voice to a whisper, "I want to talk to him."
Luke through a 'I'm sorry' glance to Jess and left.
Lorelai walked into the apartment and shut the door. "Hey, how's it going?" she asked as she looked around suspiciously.
"Uh...fine." Jess said suddenly afraid of what Rory might have said last night.
Lorelai looked at him, "really? Because it doesn't seem like you know what the hell you are doing or what the hell you want and you really need to figure this stuff out before you drag Rory down with you." She gave him a hard stare.
Jess nodded, "I want to be with Rory." He said quietly.
"Really, because from where I'm sitting it seems more like you want to get away from Rory, let's see going to California without a goodbye," she began ticking them off on her fingers, "coming back and then leaving again, showing up at Yale only to try to escape yet again." She paused and glared at him, "seems to me you want to stay away from Rory more than be with Rory."
Jess made a gruff sound, Lorelai was infuriating and a voice in the back of his head was agreeing with her, he hated that.
"I want to fix things," he said finally hoping she'd quit.
"How?" Lorelai asked fiercely.
"Y'know you have that over protective mamma bear thing down really well." Jess said trying to make her drop it.
"Yes I do, and be warned my bite is much worse than my bark."
"Huh, I wouldn't have figured that one out on my own." He said sarcastically.
"Look you little..." she paused and took a breath, "Rory likes you, she loves you even, and I swear if you screw this up again there will be nothing stopping me from killing you and burying your body someplace on the grounds of the inn. You got that?"
"Yes ma'am." Jess said curtly.
"Good." She paused, unsure of how to continue. "So what are you going to do, Rory just left that usually means you are supposed to follow or did you not watch the remake of the Parent Trap?"
"What?" Jess asked completely confused.
Lorelai had a disgusted look on her face, "I can't believe I'm helping the hoodlum make things right with my daughter." She sighed and looked at him. "You get one of these a life time so listen up, she left you follow. Now go."
Jess looked at her trying to figure out if her head was going to start spinning around in a circle or if she was going to pull out a machete or machine gun and murder him on the spot.
"What are you waiting for, if you haven't learned anything else from us you should know Gilmores are very impatient."
Jess nodded and headed for the door, he opened it and looked at her, "um, thanks." He said and walked downstairs past Luke and out the door in the direction of the bridge.
Meanwhile Lorelai looked around the apartment, "dear lord, what did I just do?" she asked thoroughly afraid of her previous actions. She walked down the stairs in a daze.
"What happened?" Luke asked when she came down the stairs.
"Some unknown force took over my body and told Jess to go after Rory." She said with a wild insane look in her eye.
Luke's jaw dropped open. And he promptly closed it and then a smug look crossed his features.
"What?" Lorelai asked as she sat on a stool feeling a bit shaky, "Did it just get a lot colder in here. Did hell just freeze over?"
Luke smiled, "you know he's not full of shit anymore." He said proudly.
Lorelai looked at him. "You poisoned the coffee." She said as she buried her face in her hands and wouldn't look up. "Dear Lord what have I done?" she kept muttering to herself.