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Hey everybody, here's Chapter Two!

Thanks for the great reviews! To those who said the whole Rory sleeping with Jess thing is OOC, I agree, but that's just the point! It's aaall part of my masterplan evil laughter, don't worry:D

Ahem so anyway, on with the story.

Chapter Two

"You're late!" Luke tells Jess, who just entered the diner.

"I know." Jess says, and starts cleaning tables.

"Where have you been?" Luke demands, following him around the diner.

"Out." Jess simply replies.

"Out? Alnight?"

"Yup."

"Where's my toolbox!"

"Huh. Must have left it at Rory's house."

"When I ask you to go fix Rory's tap, you go, you fix it, you come back, not stay out all night!"

"Got it."

Luke shakes his head and sighs frustrated, and walks back to the counter.

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A while later Jess is standing at the counter reading one of the books Rory gave him. He hears the bell chime and looks up, and he sees Dean coming in holding Rory's hand (Rory's there too, he's not just holding her hand, but he holds the hand with her attached to it). Rory and Jess look at each other, and they smile slightly, not noticeable to anyone but the two of them. She and Dean sit down at a table by the window.

"Eh, so what do you wanna eat?" Dean asks Rory.

"Well uh, I could go for some eggs, maybe, a side of pancakes…sausage…"

Dean laughs. "I guess I'll just stick with eggs."

Jess looks to see if Luke is around, but he went upstairs to get something, so he goes to Rory's table to take their order, bringing the coffeepot and two cups with him. "Coffee?" He asks, looking only at Rory.

"Need you ask?" Rory says pretending to be insulted.

Jess smirks as he puts the cups down and pours them coffee. "So what else do you want." He says, getting pad and pen ready.

They give him their order. "Be right up." He says, and leaves to give the orders to Caesar.

"Wow he seems in a good mood." Dean mentions.

"What do you mean?"

"Well he didn't give any sneers, no sarcasm, nothing."

"Well, maybe he got laid." Rory blurts out, and right after she said it, she regretted it, but Dean didn't seem to notice the grin that had appeared on her face while saying it.

Dean lifts his eyebrows. "Laid?" He asks skeptically. That sounded so not-Rory.

Rory blushes. "Well, you know, with…Shane?"

Dean lets out a short laugh. "Right." They fall silent for a moment, and Dean watches Rory play nervously with the end of her sleeve. She seemed different, more jumpy and nervous. After a while Dean opens his mouth to say something. "Do you…eh…" He starts, turning red.

"What?" Rory asks, looking up at him.

"Do you ever eh…you know…think, about uh…that?"

Rory frowns. "About what?"

"You know…that?" Dean says looking a bit nervous.

"Oh." Rory says guiltily. Of course she thought about it, she'd done it just last night…just not with him. The thought of Jess made her glance at his direction, he was reading again. She looked back at Dean. "I eh…I don't know, I guess, sometimes…sort of…" She says, suddenly feeling so terribly guilty.

Dean seems sort of surprised by this. "You do?"

"Well, don't you?"

"I don't know, I guess, yeah, me too…sometimes." He says, and gives her a nervous smile.

Jess glances at Rory as he puts his book down. It didn't matter to him that he knew Rory wanted to be with him and not Dean, he still hated seeing her with him. He keeps looking at her, hoping she'll catch his stare, and when she does, he gives her a meaningful look, and goes upstairs.

Rory looks at Dean. "Uhm, I have to use the bathroom." She says. She stands up and goes to Luke, who was just coming to their direction with their order. "Uh, Luke? Can I use your bathroom please?"

Luke puts the plates on the table, and sighs. "Sure, but just don't make a habit out of it, or people will think it's actually allowed to go up there."

Rory nods and goes upstairs. There she finds Jess leaning against the table, waiting for her. "Hey." She says.

"Hey."

Without saying anything more Jess walks up to her, softly pushes her against the wall, and kisses her passionately. He backs his head away. "So…you're not sorry?" He asks.

"Sorry? Why would I be sorry?"

"I just meant…well it was your first time, wasn't it? And technically you're still with Dean…"

She sees in his eyes that there's more to this. "Jess?" She asks.

"Just…I just don't get it. Ever since last night I wondered…"

"What?"

"Why? Why me? I mean, you barely know me, and you've been with him for two years, why didn't you…with him…" He sighs.

"Because…it never felt right, I never felt ready. And Dean'd be damned if he'd ever say or do anything to upset me…and with you it just…felt right…like it was the thing to do…"

Jess nods.

Rory lets out an ironic laugh. "Dean wouldn't even bring it up if it wasn't for me just now."

Jess frowns. "Just now? What' you say?"

"Well he noticed in what a good mood you seemed to be in, and I said without thinking that maybe you'd…" Rory turns red, looks down and mutters. "Gotten laid."

Jess grins.

"And then he asked if I ever thought about doing it, and I said sometimes."

"Sometimes…huh." Jess says.

"I meant with you." She opts, and leans in for a kiss. "I'd better get back." She then says, and Jess nods before Rory walks back downstairs.

Rory sits in her room, doing some studying when the phone rings. She picks up. "Hello?"

"Hi sweety!" Lorelai says on the other side.

"Hey mom!"

"How are you?"

"Fine, good."

"What were you doing?" Lorelai asks suspiciously.

"Oh I just finished cleaning up from this huge party I had last night, it was crazy! Everyone was there, including Kirk doing a topless Cher impression!"

"Aaah! Mental image! Scarred for life!"

"Hey, you asked for it!...So how's things at that thing you're at?"

"Oh dear God you won't believe the boredom! I got so bored, I actually started following a fly that was going through the room, and I started to wonder how fast their wings went, and how they must have really good eyesight with all those eyes they have!"

"Oh my God! What have I done letting you go to that hell pit!"

"Yeah, that's right, I blame you!" Lorelai says with a smile on her face. "Well, I really miss you!"

"It's been a day and a half."

"Long enough."

"Yeah, but you'll be back tomorrow at…insert time here."

"Around one-ish."

"See, that's very soon."

"I guess…so, Dean back yet?"

"Uhu."

"You've been all with the snuggly wuggly, and the smoochies all day haven't you?"

"Well not so much, he had to go back home first, but we're hanging out tonight, rent a video."

"Oh you mean, randomly pick a movie so that you'll have some background noises while you're making with the smoochies?"

"Oh no, our evil plan has been discovered." Rory says dryly, but with a smile.

"Well, I gotta go, love ya honey."

"Love you too, bye." And they hang up. Rory is about to go back to her studying, when the phone rings again. "Can't a girl have some rest!" She picks the up. "Hello?"

"Hey."

Rory sits straight, a smile spreading across her face. "Hi."

"You busy tonight?"

Rory sighs. "Yeah, actually, Dean's coming over."

"…Guess I was sorta expecting that."

"I wish he wasn't, though." She says.

"Then break up with him, hit two problems at once." Jess says simply.

"I can't."

"Huh."

"Not tonight, not yet."

"Why not?"

"He just got back."

"So?"

"So…it wouldn't be fair. Just…wait a little."

"…Okay. Just don't make it a too long little."

"Promise."

Dean and Rory are sitting on the couch, actually watching the movie they rented.

"So get this," Dean starts.

Rory turns her attention away from the TV.

"When I stopped by at Luke's for donuts –"

"Which I'm very grateful for, by the way." Rory says.

Dean smiles. "okay, so right after me, Shane comes in and does her usual jump-on-the-counter-and-kiss-Jess thing, and when they're finally done, Jess just looks at her for a second and says 'So uh, I don't think we should see each other.'" Dean says, imitating Jess.

"He said that?" Rory asks wide-eyed.

"Yeah, and she's like, why not, and he just shrugged and said 'just, don't want to.' Man, that guy is such a jerk!"

"So, did she cry or something?"

"No she just shrugged an left."

"Oh…"

"So it's not like couple of the year just put an end to it."

Rory nods, feeling guilty about not doing the same with Dean, in a slightly nicer way though. This wasn't fair for both Jess and Dean. Oh god, poor Dean! She cheated on him, she was a cheater! It suddenly dawned upon her what a terrible thing she'd done.
"Dean?" She asks.

"Yeah?"

Rory looks in his eyes, and decides now is not the best time, and just leans in for a kiss.

The next morning Rory and Dean are asleep on the couch, still in movie-mode. They get woken up by the sound of the doorbell.
"What?" Rory asks as she looks around, still half asleep. "Whazzat?"

A sleepy Dean smiles. "I believe it was the door."

"In the middle of the night?"

"I'll get it." Dean chuckles, and gets up. He opens the door, and it's Jess. They stare at each other, both not expecting the other there. Dean looks very irritated with Jess' presence.

Rory comes at the door rubbing her eyes and yawning. "Who's it?" She asks, and she looks upt to see Jess, suddenly she's wide awake. "Jess, what a- what are you doing here?" She asks.

"Luke wanted me to get his toolbox back." Jess says, showing now emotion on his face.

"At three in the morning?" Rory asks.

"It's ten." Jess replies dryly.

"Well, so, that's the same." Rory says, and she disappears to the kitchen to get the toolbox.
Jess and Dean are still not saying a word to each other, they just stand there, staring. On the inside Jess laughs at him. If Dean only knew what his precious and he had been doing the other night…then again, he's probably try to beat him into pulp, so not so funny…
Rory returns. "Here." She says while she hands him the toolbox, their hands briefly touching as Jess takes it from her. Oh how she wanted to touch him. If only he wasn't gorgeous and damn irresistible!

"Well, see ya." Jess says and turns around and leaves.

Well that's it for Chapter Two. Chapter three coming up soon, so stay tuned!

BTW, sorry if you feel any of this is OOC, but I just like it this way so there…