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Raining Recipes on My Coat Chapter 5

They'd made it to the hallway and stopped, staring at each other awkwardly.

"My room's over there," Rory told him, pointing to the door they stood in front of.

"My room is over there," he replied, nodding to the door across the hall.

She nodded. "Nice. Close."

"Yeah."

They stood in silence for another moment, before she pulled him close and kissed him. It started out slow and sweet, but became more passionate as they continued. He unconsciously tried to steer into her room, forgetting that the door was closed. She thumped into it, and wrapped her arms around him tightly.

He pulled away a little. "Rory..."

"Hmmm...?"

He brushed his nose against hers. "You sure about this?"

She nodded.

"Then maybe the hall isn't the best place for it..."

She kissed him again and reached back and opened the door. They stumbled in, and he slammed the door behind them.

"What are we doing here?" Lorelai asked as Luke guided her into the diner. "I have to get back to the inn."

"You need to calm down," Luke ordered.

She sighed and sat at the counter. "I still can't believe Dean."

Luke shrugged and walked behind the counter, starting up a pot of coffee.

"He was such a good kid!" Lorelai reasoned. "He wouldn't cheat on Lindsay."

"Well, he tried to," Luke replied, setting a mug in front of her. "I never liked him."

"He was a good kid!"

"You're right!" Luke cried. "He's was a kid! The problem is that he's still a kid; a married kid who really has no idea what he's doing! Who gets married at nineteen?!"

"Who asks their ex to run away with them after leaving them in the dust?" Lorelai snapped.

Luke glared a little. "You leave him out of this."

"Why?" Lorelai asked. "He's the one Rory's gonna wind up sleeping with!"

Luke's eyes widened. "What?!"

Lorelai nodded. "She wants to sleep with Jess."

He sighed heavily and poured her some coffee. "She love him?"

"That's what she says," Lorelai replied. "He love her?"

"Yeah." Luke nodded. "Yeah, he does."

They remained in silence for a long moment, until Lorelai burst into tears.

Luke deflated a little. "Lorelai..."

"I'm sorry," she sniffed. "I'm sorry. Tonight was not supposed to be this way... tonight was supposed to be... The Dragonfly! And... a nice time! My parents were supposed to work things out tonight. You and Jess were supposed to sit back and be... you and Jess, and Dean was supposed to go home and have dinner with his wife, and Jason was supposed to never come back here. And Rory and I were supposed to run around at three in the morning and make chocolate sundaes... it wasn't supposed to be like this. As it is, god only knows where Dean is, my parents probably won't speak to me for weeks, Jason showed up and screwed things up, you're babysitting me, and Rory is probably with Jess right now..."

Luke slowly walked around the counter and wrapped an arm around her. "It's okay."

She cried a little harder, and he held her tighter.

She was lying in bed wrapped tightly in the sheet with his arm circled her stomach and his head lay on top of hers. Her fingers danced lightly against the hair on the back of his neck.

"You alright?"

Rory nodded, and closed her eyes.

Jess smirked. "Tired?"

She gave another nod. "Your fault."

"Sorry," he murmured.

"You don't look so awake, either," Rory accused with a smile.

Jess shrugged.

She stared down at him. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah."

Rory frowned. "You look pensive."

He stayed silent for a moment. "Wanna know a secret?"

She nodded. "Mhm."

Jess sighed. "I've never done that with... someone I..."

She waited a moment, and when he didn't go on, she gave him a nod and pulled him closer. "I've never done that before period."

"I know," he said. "So? Good? Bad?"

Rory let out a deep breath and cuddled into his side. "First time... not so good... second time..." she nodded and smiled. "That was good."

"Third time?"

"We haven't gotten there yet," she snickered.

Jess grinned. "We will." He sat up a little and looked around the dark room. "Who's next to us?"

Rory raised an eyebrow at him. "This side of us is Taylor, and the other side is Sookie and Jackson and Davie."

He nodded, grin still in place, and proceeded to thump on the wall a couple of times. "Oooh, Rory!" he moaned loudly.

Her eyes went wide as she took the pillow out from behind her, and smacked him with it. "Jess!"

He laughed a little and fought off the pillow, eventually grabbing her wrists playfully. They stopped struggling with each other, and she stared at him, leaning forward just as he was into a kiss.

And then someone knocked on the door.

Dean could only think of one person who would understand any of what he was going through.

Rory would get it. She'd know. She'd know what to do. She'd understand. Of course she would. She loved him!

He snuck into the Dragonfly and up the stairs to the room, remembering which one she was sharing with her mother. Hopefully, Lorelai would be busy elsewhere.

He prayed for this as he knocked on the door.

But it wasn't Rory who opened the door; No. It wasn't even Lorelai.

It was Jess.

A half-naked, messy-haired Jess.

Dean stared in shock.

Jess smirked and scratched the back of his head. "Hi."

Dean's stare turned into a glower. "What are you doing here?"

Jess weighed the options of his reply, and then nodded as he decided on what to say. "Having sex."

Dean's eyes nearly fell out of his head. "With Rory?!"

Jess seemed to give this another moment's thought, and then nodded again, this time with a crooked smile. "Yeah."

The taller of the two got the most horrible expression on his face. He cocked his fist and let it fly, connecting with Jess's stomach. Jess stumbled back a little, but recovered quickly, and sent his own fist right at Dean's face.

Rory scrambled out of bed, throwing on clothes and rushing to the door to stop the fight. She pushed the two apart and stood in-between them. "Stop!"

At that moment, most of the Dragonfly's guests began to emerge from their rooms.

Patty blinked at the trio. "What on earth is going on?"

"They had sex!" Dean accused, pointing.

Jess tried advance on him again, but Rory gave him another shove backwards.

"You did what?!" Taylor yelled. He turned to Jess. "You horribly perverted degen-"

"Hey!" Rory cried. "I'm nineteen years old! There's nothing perverted about it! I wanted to! I love Jess!"

The assembled group in the hall gasped loudly.

"It's none of your business what I do!" Rory defended. "Or who I do it with!" She grabbed Jess's hand and dragged him into the room, slamming the door behind them.

He watched her as she glared at the door. "Rory..."

"What?" she snapped slightly.

His stance became awkward. "You love me?"

Her eyes darted to him. "You knew that. I told you."

He nodded and walked to her, taking her face in his hands and kissing her.