Title: Back In Stars Hollow

Chapter 4: The Unlucky Patrol

A/N: Hee! I got rid of the disclaimer! Did you notice? See, that means that last night during my sleep I turned into ASP. But not really. You know, I don't think I was supposed to call your attention to the fact that I got rid of the disclaimer. Crap.

Anyway, I just want to say Thank you thank you thank you thank you!! Over thirty reviews for three chapters…you guys are so cool!!

Okay, and third: During my readings today, I came across this quote. Ignore my girly squealing for a little while and bear with me as I gush about the Java love, Lit love, and a few more different kinds of love. Okay. Quote: "And then he reaches up and kisses her. Aw. Aww. Eee! EEEE! Aw. Ahem." See, it's for the love of Pacey and Joey ("Dawson", but you knew that) and I would like to take this time to explain my weirdness, and then squeal about Gilmorian love. (That's a fun word. "Gilmorian." Hee.) Okay, so when I was younger and more close-mindeder….

Sorry. Anyway, never having seen an episode of "Dawson", I still hated it with the passion of a thousand suns. All people with their own opinion on Dawson, either agree with me immediately or stay tuned!! Anyway, so when I realized it was ending, I was all like, "I should watch it, so I can at least say that I saw Dawson when it ended and it was crap." And then I found out they were going in the future, and—naïve one that I am—I was pushing for my Joey/Dawson love. I'm such an idiot. So I watched the last episode, and *spoilers if you haven't seen it and want to see it and have been living under a rock and don't know who she ended up with!!* when I found out she ended up with Pacey, I was all mad. I dunno why. Anyway, so I found out I was in love—especially since I bawled my eyes out when Jen died—and I started watching the reruns on TBS. (weekdays, two hours, ten/nine central in the morning, followed by "Saved By The Bell"…Hee!) I am now a firm believer in the Pacey/Joey love, and I firmly resolve to save myself for either Joshua Jackson or Milo Ventimiglia…both single, currently. Of course, I've only got Milo posters, but anyway.

Okay, so I was reading this recap about "Dawson" and I came across the quote, and it can be used…so many ways!!! I will now proceed to tell you what I watch and what I would love to see happen/loved when it happened on my favorite shows. (Or, at least, you know, three of them)

Squealy kiss love time: Rory/Jess, wedding scene. Jess/Rory, Luke's apartment scene. Rory/Jess, gas station. (sigh….better days) Luke/Lorelai, not really baby/breakfast scene, cause that was a crappy kiss. Just a "bye, off to work, love ya" (sigh) kiss, ya know? Sorry. Luke/Lorelai, the kiss from the last chapter. I'm so in love with the Java love still. I know this is gonna make quite a few people mad, but these were cute kisses: Rory/Tristan, piano bench…kinda, Rory/Dean, cornstarch stealing kiss, and also Rory/Dean, reunited and glad they're not Cher and Greg Allman kiss. OOH! And really squealy kiss, including bawling out of eyes: yesterday, on All My Children(yes, it's a soap opera, people…it's all my mother's fault) Maria and Edmund renewed their vows. Maria just showed up a few months ago after "dying" five years ago and losing her memory, and she just got her memory back a few weeks ago, and her cute British boyfriend let her go back to her husband, and the actor and actress who play Edmund and Maria are really married, and my mom told me that the guy who plays Edmund said that he didn't have to act in the renewal of vows scene, cause she really is beautiful, and he really does love her…I swear to god, my pillow was wet last night. I was bawling. Seriously, bawling. It was almost as bad as whenever I see the last episode of Boy Meets World.

But anyway. You guys want the story. And here it comes!!

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"Is that Luke's car?" Rory asked as she and Jess walked up to Lorelai's house.

"Right in front of Lorelai's," Jess nodded. Rory turned to him with a huge grin on her face.

"Do you think they…you know?"

"Do you think they did it when he stayed over here night before last?"

"No." She sighed. "But, Mom just broke up with her boyfriend." She grinned again.

Jess laughed and threw his arm around her shoulder once again. "You're so cute."

"Are you mocking me?"

"Always."

"Evil boy," Rory said, slapping Jess playfully. Jess just grinned, and they walked up the stairs to the front porch.

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"Mom?" Rory called from downstairs as she entered the house. Luke and Lorelai, teetering on the edge of actually falling onto her bed, slowly and reluctantly pulled apart.

"What was that?" Luke whispered, referring to the kiss, still panting from lack of breath. His hands were cupping her face, and their foreheads were touching.

"One of those happy accidents," Lorelai answered, leaning up to kiss him again.

"Mom!" Rory called again, standing at the foot of the stairs.

"Coming!" Lorelai called, separating from Luke again so they were only inches apart. "We should go downstairs," she whispered.

"Yeah." Luke nodded, but neither moved.

"You think we should get our breath back first?"

"Probably." Luke nodded, and they just continued standing there, his hands on both of her cheeks, her hands on his wrists.

Downstairs, Rory grinned at Jess, and then yelled towards her mother's room again. "Don't make me come up there, you two!"

Luke blanched, while Lorelai grinned. "Uh-oh. The unlucky patrol's onto us."

"'Unlucky'?"

"Cause we can't get lucky with them here." Lorelai explained.

"You've never full grown out of the teenage stage, have you?"

"Of course not. What would be the fun in that?"

Luke grinned and kissed her quickly again. "I'm starting to get what you mean."

"Of course you are." Lorelai kissed him back.

"I'm on the bottom landing!" Rory called from downstairs.

"Should we go down there?" Lorelai asked.

Luke shook his head and kissed her again. "Let's make a run for it."

Lorelai grinned. "I like the way you think. But the trees are too far from my window, and I don't wanna pull a Pollyanna."

"Hmm." Luke looked pensive, and Lorelai grinned and kissed him again. Now that she'd started, she never wanted to stop. "Let's just hide," he suggested.

Lorelai grinned evilly. "And where would we hide?"

He raised his eyebrows suggestively, and nodded toward the bed. Her grin got wider.

"I love the way you think."

The older Danes/Gilmore couple scrambled underneath the covers to make out some more, while the younger Gilmore was leading a reluctant younger Danes up the stairs.

"Rory, maybe we should leave them alone. I don't think they want to be found, if you know what I mean."

"Jess!" she exclaimed softly, mock-shocked. "I can't believe you would even think a thought like that!" She shook her head and lifted a foot to continue toward her mother's room.

"Uh-uh," Jess grabbed Rory's arm and turned her around, pulling her down the stairs. "Let's leave them alone."

"But, but—"

"But, but, nothing. You and I will leave them alone. To avoid being bored from our minds, we'll check out the diner, see if the bookstore's open, and then head back to the Inn, or maybe the bridge."

"Mmm, the bridge." Rory grinned.

"Exactly."

"Okay. But can I yell at them before we walk out of the house?"

"Sure."

"Cool." Rory grinned, and stopped just inside the front door. "Jess and I are going to the diner and then the bookstore! We'll see you either at the diner or the Inn for dinner! Both of you!! And—"

"Okay, that's enough." Jess pulled her arm, and then shut the door behind her.

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"We should do this more often," Lorelai commented as she pushed the covers off of her and Luke's heads.

"Mm-hmm," Luke answered, kissing his way down Lorelai's neck. She giggled, and then rested her head on his chest.

"I like this. Lying here on top of you."

"It is pretty nice."

"'Pretty nice'?" Lorelai scoffed. "Pretty goddamn wonderful's more like it."

Luke grinned. "You know what I noticed?"

"What?" Lorelai asked, taking her turn and kissing around Luke's perpetual five o'clock shadow.

"You haven't mentioned coffee. All day long."

"You've figured out my secret. If you tempt me with some of your fabulous kisses, I ignore coffee."

"Ah, the truth comes out at last."

"And it only took you almost twenty years to figure it out."

Luke groaned. "You make us sound old."

"I know. Sucks, doesn't it?"

"It sucks ass."

Lorelai grinned. "I can fix that sucky attitude." She leaned down and kissed him again. He wrapped his arms around her and rolled her off of him, so they were lying side by side on the bed, connected at the lip.

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"What book'd you get? Which one? Huh? Which one?" Rory jumped up and down, holding onto one of Jess' hands with both of hers, trying to see into his bag from the bookstore.

"An old favorite."

"Oh, okay. You know what that tells me? Nothing!"

"Rather impatient, aren't we?"

"Yes, rather," Rory responded, putting on an affected accent and stopping jumping. "And I believe we're rather late for tea. It is after high noon, after all."

"God, sorry. I gotta watch who I hang out with, apparently."

"Who are you hanging out with that's causing you to say 'rather'?"

"At least I don't say it with that stupid affected accent."

"Hey! It's not stupid. It's…affected."

Jess laughed. "How did we get in this conversation?"

Rory grinned. "No idea."

"Sounds like one of our conversations." Jess stopped suddenly. Rory stopped next to him. "Here we are," he said reverently, staring at the bridge as if it were an old friend he hadn't seen in years. In a way, it was.

"I love this place." Rory gushed as they started walking slowly to the middle of the bridge.

"Me, too."

"It always seemed like…ours."

"And that's a good thing."

"Always." Rory grinned, and she and Jess settled onto the wet wood, ignoring the wetness. Jess pulled his book from the bag and started reading. Rory grinned at the title, and then lay on the bridge with her head in his lap. "Read to me," she commanded, looking up at his face, framed by the rapidly lightening sky.

"Oh, yes, of course," he said sarcastically, before rolling his eyes and returning to the book.

"Read!" she whined. "I'm pregnant," she said in a warning tone after the whining failed. Jess laughed.

"Are you gonna use that every time you want to get something out of me?"

"For the next four months. At least. And then I can use the 'but I just had a baby!' excuse." She grinned.

"Okay. I'll read to you. But I'm skipping the intro."

"Fine with me." Rory shrugged, and Jess flipped through the thirty-page introduction. He smoothed Rory's bobbed hair from her face, cleared his throat, and started on the first chapter.

"Chapter one: The Bride. 'The year that Buttercup was born, the most beautiful woman in the world was a French scullery maid named Annette…."

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At Lorelai's house, Lorelai and Luke were upstairs in her bed, buried underneath her covers. At the bridge, Rory and Jess were basking in each other's company. And on Rory's cell phone, a voice message was being left.

"Rory? This is Mark. Your boyfriend. Look, I know that I haven't been the best of boyfriends for a while now, but I'm gonna be in Hartford next week, and I was hoping that you were in Stars Hollow and we could maybe get some coffee. I know how much you love coffee. Say hi to your mom, Paris, and Lane for me. Uh, you know where to reach me. Love ya."

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