Title: Taking Care Of Me

Author: Katie OompaLoompa1212@aol.com

Story Summary: Starts at Teach Me tonight and goes from there (

Spoilers: Up to and including "Teach Me Tonight"

Pairing: Rory and Jess

Authors Note: This is my very first fanfiction so PLEASE send me Feedback.Good or bad!

Distribution: Please.if you want to put it somewhere do, all I ask is that you send me the URL to wherever you put it. Thanks:)

Disclaimer: I don't own anything Gilmore Girls.I wish I did though.

Chapter: Eleven, No regrets

As Rory saw Dean approaching she sighed slightly. She knew that she was going to have to deal with this sooner or later but right then she felt so right with Jess, and she was happy to be with him, she didn't want anything to mess that up.

Jess knew Rory was freaking out a little and dropped his arm from around her. He didn't want to make things harder for her.

Rory felt Jess's arm fall from around her waist and knew that he was trying to help her. Rory moved her hand to hold his quickly she looked up at him and smiled. No regrets she thought to herself. She wanted him to know how much she wanted this.

Jess returned the smile slightly, "Bag Boy," Jess said coolly as Dean stopped in front of them.

"I'd seriously advise you to shut up" Dean snapped not quite as good at keeping his cool. He turned his look to Rory, "I need to speak with you," He said cooling down.

"I don't know" Rory said unsure as she looked between Jess and Dean. "What do you need?" she asked.

"Not here" Dean said simply. "I need to talk to you alone" Dean answered.

"Okay," Rory closed her eyes for a moment. She turned toward Jess, "I'll meet you at the bridge?" she asked in a whisper.

Jess nodded slightly and moved to kiss her, "Can I?" He asked.

"Yeah" She answered with a small smile and his lips met hers. Rory returned the quick kiss. "See you there" Jess whispered as they broke apart. Rory nodded slightly as Jess walked away.

Rory looked back over at Dean slowly, "what is it?" she asked.

"I just want to say that I'm really upset about the way everything ended" Dean said honestly. "Rory, I'm not saying this out of spite or the fact that I really want to punch Jess but I don't think you should be with him". Dean shook his head slightly, he knew to her it must sound like he was saying this to get her to break up with Jess but in all reality he just didn't want her to get hurt. They had dated for so long and he would always care about her. He didn't want her to get hurt. "He'll move too fast for you" Dean warned. They really hadn't done anything when they were together. "And he'll hurt you again, Rory everyone else in this town hates him, you should too" dean sighed, "You are way too good for him" Dean said, Rory Gilmore was way too good for most people.

Rory looked at Dean, stunned for a moment. She honestly couldn't believe he'd say those things. Rory sighed slightly, "You're wrong" She said and took a deep breath, "He has never and wouldn't hurt me" she said, "I wouldn't hate him and I'm not too good for him" she said. "And I'm sorry about how everything ended too. You were a great first boyfriend, but I think it's just time to move on, I'm sorry" she said looking up at him.

"Rory just think about what I said" Dean sighed. He said a quick good- bye before walking toward Doosey's to start his shift.

Even though Rory knew that Dean was just trying to look out for her she couldn't help but be a little mad. Jess wouldn't hurt her, she was confident in that. She thought about the conversation that had just taken place as she walked toward the bridge.

"Hi," She said softly to him as she reached the bridge and sat down next to him.

"Hi" Jess returned and kissed her lightly. After a second Jess pulled away. "So what did you and Dean talk about?" He asked.

Rory sighed looking over at him. "He said that you'd hurt me," She said quietly. Basically everything that he had said boiled down to him hurting her.

Jess took a deep breath and nodded slightly. He wasn't sure what to say. "Are you okay?" He finally asked knowing it must have been a hard conversation for her.

"Yeah, are you?" She asked. She remembered with Dean that he could get mad about almost anything. She always felt like she had to ask him for permission to do things. Now with Jess, he wasn't like that. It was like he had complete trust in her, and that was a great feeling.

"I'm fine" he promised her as she laid down on the cool wood of the bridge her head resting in his lap. He ran his hand through her hair lightly.

Rory smiled slightly as he did so lightly running her fingertips along his arm. She felt like she loved him. She didn't want to tell him that because she could still remember when Dean had said it to her and she couldn't say it back how upset he had been. She didn't want to ruin what they had. Rory slowly sat up and kissed Jess lightly. She closed her eyes letting herself get lost in the kiss, in Jess, in the felling of his arms around her.

~*~*~*~ Ok, I'll probably update once more this weekend. PLEASE review. And as always, and ideas would be greatly appreciated:)