Title: Don't judge the bad boy…

Author: x identaty

Disclaimer: Don't own a thing. If I did Jess would be with Rory or better yet he would be in my closet mine to have forever. (Drooling over Milo. who isn't………ok now I got a very disturbing image of my brother, but you get my point .Lol) And o yeah Kat and some others are my own character that belongs to me. Dally, is from one of my all time favorite books The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton.

Summary: A phone call sends Jess to New York, but something happens that stops him from going there, and could change stars hollow for ever. Pairings: Jess / Rory, Luke /Loralai, maybe some others. Jess/Katie friendship.

Timeline: Season three, before Rory and Jess got together, but Shane and Jess are not together. Rory and Jess, are hostile, and haven't talked about the kiss. Rory is still with Dean (should be tortured by Angelus), and Chris did promise to be a family, but left when he found out Sherry was pregnant, neither Rory nor Loralai are talking to him. Luke and Loralai thought talking once again, aren't on their usually good terms, and are cautious with one another.

Chapter one: Phone call from New York.

It was still quit in Danes Residence, which was strange since Luke got up at five am. Today he decided to sleep in, but so it happened that fate wouldn't have it. The phone rang…and it kept on ringing. Luke played with the idea of not getting up and letting his nephew get the phone, but Luke knew that would not happen. The temperature in hell would drop below zero before Jess would get up and actually answer the phone… He was pretty sure Jess would bite the head off anyone, who dared to wake him up, fact that was only reinforced by his mood of late. Luke grumpily got up and went to answer the phone, and when he did, he got the surprise of the year, if not his entire life. The call was for Jess, which if they were a normal family wouldn't have been weird, but they were them, grumpy diner owner, and "I hate the world" badass punk who didn't socialize.

Luke picked up the phone.

L: whoever the hell you are you better have a damn good reason to call this early on the day I decided to sleep in.

B: Uh-huh, Jess?

Jess hadn't gotten a lot of calls since he came to Stars Hollow, in fact Luke would bet his diner that only Rory called Jess at their apartment phone, and that didn't happen anymore since the atmosphere between the two was anything but friendly, in fact, it was openly hostile, much to Loralia's and Dean's happiness.

L: No this is his uncle, who are you?

B: Oh. I'm a friend of Jess, could you get him?

Luke thought a moment and decided to test this friend of Jess. After all if he wanted Jess to change, and clean his act a bit, he had to know he was hanging with the right crowd.

L: ok, friend of Jess, what's your name?

B: Brian

L: Ok, Brian, where are you from? because, I'm sure I would know something if you were from Stars Hollow

B: New York

At the Luke closed his eyes. He had guessed that this was not a Stars Hollow resident but still he hoped. Luke didn't know the people that Jess hanged with in New York, and he knew that they were part of the reason Jess got in trouble.

B: Could you please get Jess on the phone?

Luke cut the boy off

L: How well do you know Jess?

B: Pretty well

L: Do you know what time it is?

B: yeah

L: It's five in the morning

B: oh

L: Do you understand what I'm trying to say here?

B: I do, but this is urgent, just tell him it's Brian and say that, he hates Hemmingway.

L: huh

Luke thought about it for a moment, the boy did seem desperate, and he seemed pleasant enough on the phone.

L: Hold on a moment

Luke went to his nephews room and saw Jess on his stomach, with the blanket half covering him, half whipping the floor, sleeping.

Luke shook his nephew a bit, "Jess" he said, "wake up ". Jess just put a pillow over his head Luke tried again "Jess, jess you got a call" and shook Jess stronger than he did before.

Jess opened one eye from under the pillow, "who the fuck is it…" Jess looked over at the digital clock on his nightstand and said " calling me at 5 am in the morning?"

"Its Brian, he says to tell you that you hate Hemmingway"

That seemed to wake up Jess, as he practically ripped the phone from Luke's hands.

Jess gave Luke a look, and Luke held up his hands as if in defense and left the room, but he left the door open. Jess didn't notice. He was to busy coming up with reasons why Brian called.

As soon as Luke was far enough Jess said to Brian "Speak, fast"

Luke didn't go far from Jess room, he just went far enough for Jess not to notice him, but close enough to hear what his nephew was saying. He didn't know when he had turned this parental. When Jess first came to Stars Hollow, Luke would never do this, but he seemed to get the hang of how to at least have an idea about what his nephew was up too. But that wasn't the only thought In Luke's head. Luke knew that Jess was always cool; he had a wall of aloofness that let him hide his feelings. His eyes wouldn't show you what he was feeling, Jess could hide that too.

It sometimes bugged Luke that his nephew could always hide his feelings so well, even when Rory was concerned, but he didn't know what to do about it. When Jess heard that phrase 'he hates Hemmingway' and that it was Brian, by the way what the hell that phrase meant, Luke saw so much emotion in Jess that he for a moment thought he was hallucinating. Ever since he came back, Jess was a steel wall that talked back sarcastically to anyone.

Suddenly, Luke was interrupted out of his thoughts by the loud

" Fuck, How the fuck you let that happen? "

Luke came closer, to Jess' room. Jess never yelled, he was sarcastic but he never yelled, and that fact was more than a little disturbing as well worrying.

" Why the hell haven't you called me earlier?"

"Don't give me that fucking bullshit excuse."

"Shit" Jess said again "who knows you are calling?"

Jess suddenly chuckled "of course I know that you called in secret, what do you think! First, you're about as much of a morning person as I am. Second it's you, not Dally or Darry. b. And third I know for a fact that Katty would never let you call me .Now." Jess' voice took the hard tone again.

"Who knows you are calling?" Jess listened for a moment then said,

"Where the fuck is Dally and Darry, get them there, I'll be there in a few hours."

Jess listened to Brian talk for a moment then said " I said I'd be there in few hours, get everyone .Now I am telling you this and I telling you this only once, I don't want Katie out of sight before I get there. If she has to go to the fucking bathroom, some one goes with her."

Jess listened again for a bit "Right now I don't give the fuck about that, I said I don't want her out of sight. I meant it and I will beat the hell out of you, if you do.. You know I will "

Jess hanged up the phone and started moving around his room packing random things into his duffel bag. Luke came to his room and looked at his nephew. Jess looked like he would destroy anyone between him and his destination.

"Going somewhere?" asked Luke.

"New York "Jess said not looking up.

"Why?" asked Luke

" Friend in trouble" answered Jess

"Long?" Asked Luke again

"Don't know" said Jess and he finally looked up and met Luke's eyes.

What Luke saw there was not to be taken lightly. He saw tears. Jess Mariano - the bad boy, who hated the world, with never showed any feelings, no care in the world was crying. Luke knew not to say anything. He also knew Jess had a head on his shoulders. After all, why would he read so damn many books and have all of them written over if he didn't. He knew that Jess had a big heart. He thought the thing that turned Jess like that was his mother and the life in New York, not to mention the father living the boy when he was 5. Suddenly a phrase sounded in Luke's head that he knew he had to have heard from Lorelai, Don't hate the playa' hate the game. Luke looked at Jess and then reached for his wallet that was in his jeans. He gave Jess two 100$ bills.

" Be careful" he said "and call if you need help .oh…" almost as an afterthought he added "and try not to get into too much trouble."

Jess looked at Luke's hand where the money was, then he looked at Luke. He didn't expect this. He expected resistance--not help. Jess signed and composed himself. He took the money, and then thinking for a few moments looked around his room for a pen and a piece of paper. Finding what he was looking for he wrote down two phone numbers.

"You can find me by these numbers" he said

Luke nodded, and then asked, "are you going to see your mother?"

Jess looked at Luke with tired eyes, eyes that seen too much for his age.

"What do you think." Jess said and walked out of the room and out of diner but Luke knew the answer. It was no.

Jess walked out of the diner in a hurry. He didn't pay much attention to his surroundings, the way he usually did. Now in fact that his mind was thinking more clearly, and he noted how understanding Luke had been, and that he, himself hadn't said one sarcastic remark. Well, he thought, that what happens, after you find out that your best friend, who is like a little sister to you, is pregnant. Jess warned that soon to be dead man to be careful with Katie, he warned him that if he hurt, that he would have to deal with Jess himself, and he told Katie to be careful. He knew it was stupid to think she was never going to have sex, when, he himself had a lot of experience at a young age. But he had warned her, told her to be careful, he told her not to take this matter carelessly and then regret it like him. He told her that if she wasn't careful, she would end up with something she was not ready for. A baby. And now that was true. Kat was pregnant and was going to be a mother to a real breathing, moving baby and he was going to be an uncle. Maybe not by blood, but he and Katy were brother and sister to each other. Not by blood but by the bond they shared. They knew each other from an early age. They both needed a friend and found one in each other. They helped each other. They were everything for each other a sibling, a best friend. They used each other as a punching bag to take out the anger they had for life they led, and the thing that jess knew made them click , made them really understand each other was, that they came back from the same families. Jess father left when he was five and left him with a mother who couldn't care less. While Kat's mother left when Kat was 5 going on 6, with a deadbeat alcoholic father. Father. Jess suddenly realized that the baby would grow out with out a father, like him, like Kat. He knew Kat could take a lot of things and he knew she was going to take care of her baby, but Jess knew that wasn't going to be enough, because, while the case may be different, it wasn't enough for him.

Jess hadn't even noticed that he had walked out on to the road, but it wasn't a big deal, since the streets of Stars Hollow were almost empty of moving cars. Suddenly there was a noise, Jess looked where it was coming from, and it was coming from a car that was moving towards him on a very fast speed. Jess reacting fast jumped but it wasn't fast enough. The car hit him.

A/N: Ok this is it for now, but more soon, I wrote this story a while again and then it just didn't work, but now I revised it, and changed some things. Please review and tell me what you think… Should I continue?