Disclaimer: I don't own Gilmore Girls.
"Rory, wait!" At his voice, she ran harder, not caring that it had started to rain, and that she was getting drenched. "Rory!" She stopped suddenly, her normally expressive eyes, dead and dull.
"What? What is it? What do you want? To humiliate me more, or to lie to me again?" Her tone, he noticed, had gone as dead as her eyes. It broke his heart that he had done this to her.
"You have to believe me, Rory. We didn't-I didn't…do this to try and hurt you. Lorelai is having the baby soon, and we knew how much she wanted you here. There just didn't seem to be another way to get you to come." Her eyes filled again, and she turned away from him, walking to the train stop.
"My stuff…" Her voice was small, and Jess could sense how broken she felt.
"Rory-" She looked up at him with fire in her eyes, and he took a step back. She smiled weakly. "I'll just go and get it-" The shaking of her head caused him to stop.
"Send it to me. If you go in there, they'll ask questions, then she'll come out here, and…I can't handle that right now. So could you please just send it to me?" She hadn't even turned around to look at him as she said the words, but as she stood she turned. "Could you just tell her…just tell her good luck for me, Ok?" Jess nodded, and Rory looked down, unable to look him in the eye. "I should be going. I have to catch a train." She gestured behind her, blindly, gazing not at him, but at a hazy spot behind him. She turned away again, and Jess sighed as he watched her go.
"Rory!" Her name was ripped from his throat out of nowhere, and she stopped, her back ramrod straight, her shoulders tensing.
"Yeah?" She called, not turning around. He smiled as he walked to her, some unknown force drawing him to her. And in a blur of movements and emotions, she was in his arms, and his lips were on hers. She pulled away after a moment, her lips trembling. "Oh my god." She mumbled as she hurried away. Jess couldn't help the grin that spread across his face.
"Hey, Rory," She stopped and turned around, her face a maelstrom of emotions. Her tears and the rain causing her cheeks to redden. "I love you." She gasped again, her mouth hanging the tiniest bit open. Jess bit the inside of his cheek to keep from laughing. He reached her in a matter of seconds, because she hadn't run away. "And when you're ready, I'll be here." He'd been expecting a thousand different reactions. Had been hoping for a breathless retaliation, maybe a hug, another kiss. The stinging sensation he felt when she slapped him, however was another matter entirely.
Author's Note: I have the ending all worked out, and this is not it! I just needed to get this in there for me, and it seemed like the only place where it would fit. I'm sorry if you didn't like it, but I really did.
