Hiya!

Okay so this is in the future, but not really future, future. Just...well they aren't old yet.

Everything happened up to season four, and yeah she slept with Dean EW, now I'm totally depressed and can't close my eyes again! I can't believe that, I mean you must be really drunk, or desperate. Anway, they saw each other again a year after the "come away with me" thingy...and now they're like 24 years old or something...right?

Okay, first of all I wanna thank my staff and pare-...sorry. I wanna thank Roxydesigns (read her story, All's Well In The World!) she helped me with my grammar and stuff, and I love you kitten! Also, we wrote Third Time's A Charm together hihi! (This is just shameless advertising!)

Okay enough with the sappy thank you's.

So I hope you like it, and please review. I need reviews. I'll update sooner! nudge

Disclaimer: Nothing! I wanna kill ASP and erase some of the things she wrote and make the show a LIT! With lost of JESS!...

Enjoy, and let me know if it sucks.

Grasshoppertje

1: Mars bars, elevators and rants...!

Jess is walking towards the cafeteria. When he gets inside, he walks to the counter and orders a cup of coffee and a mars bar. He's a Lit. teacher at a high school in New York. And he just had the worst class, so he really needs the caffeine.

The students were only talking and didn't pay the least bit of attention to Jess and his lesson.
Personally he didn't really care, he prefers to read in the lessons from this ´special´ class.
Because the discussions...the discussions, well to be honest there are no discussions at all.
The only thing they talk about is when they can go home and they don't pay attention at all.
So he just gives them homework, which they don't do, he knows that of himself all too good when he was that age. Hell he didn't even go to the teachers meetings prepared himself.
He just hopes they pass the tests so he won't get the principal on his back. Anyway this is only with this particular class. The rest of the classes are normal, well as normal as they can be with Jess Mariano. He is a popular teacher mostly with the girls. Some people still couldn't grasp the fact that he of all people became a teacher. And by people meaning his uncle Luke, Liz, his wife Rory, Lorelai and well the list goes on and on.
He still couldn't understand it himself, but he hadn't had a choice 'cause he couldn't get another job fast enough and well he needed the money.

"Jess! Jess!" Someone shouts out to him. Jess grabs his coffee and mars and turns around. "Hey George" Jess greets the gym teacher. Jess wasn't really buddy-buddy with the teachers, he always hated teachers. But George was also a young teacher, and Jess could get along with him.

"Jess could you please watch my class, for half an hour?"

"Uh...no George, you're a gym teacher! I don't do sports, hell I do-" Jess says but George cut him off.

"Jess! Man, please! Shanna saw this place for us to live and well we have to check it out, besides if I cancel one more thing, all hell will break loose! Come on Jess! Just watch them!"

"No, I just had Satan's kid and his 24 clones! I need...I need my...my rest." Jess saus really not wanting to play gym teacher to coach some sort of game.

"Jess come on! I forgot our one year anniversary! I really have to make it up to Shanna! Come on man!"

"Your fault not mine! How could you forget about it anyway! She even taped it on the message machine! She placed an ad in the newspaper! What more do you need man!" Jess says with a smirk.

"Yeah well, I forgot okay? Please Jess, you just say play...play basketball or whatever and you sit down. And I'll come back in half an hour, an hour tops!"

"I can't believe I'm doing this. Fine!" Jess says annoyed.

"Thanks man! I owe you big time!" George says relieved.

"Yeah, yeah" Jess says.

"Okay man. I'll be back as soon as possible". George says and he runs out of the school building.

Jess walks into the gym and all the girls are chatting at the bleachers. The boys are playing basketball.

"Okay! Okay! Everybody sit!" Jess yells through the gym.

The students oblige after a moment and they sit down.

"Okay so Mr. Woods had to go somewhere, so I'm helping him out." Jess says because they all look really confused. Some of the girls giggle.

"What are we doing Mr. Mariano?" Barbara asks.

"Well I don't know, and I really do-" But Jess is cut of by a little girl who slips through the door and is now running towards him. "Daddy! Daddy!" The little girl yells, with Rory running right after her.

"Oh no Kate ! Katie Mariano! You listen to me, young lady! I haven't had any coffee this morning...so you better stop running missy...otherwise I might pass out! Mommy needs her coffee! And we're really late ...so !" Rory runs after Katie but Katie jumps in her father's arms.

"Wow...what are you doing here?" Jess says holding his daughter and steadying his wife who almost toppled over by the sudden stop.

"Well.." Rory says panting. She begins her ramble not knowing that thirty students are watching her from behind.
"I was in the bathroom and your daughter...ran outside the apartment, so When I came out the bathroom I didn't see her and the front door was open so I panicked and ran out of the apartment to look for her. I saw her by the elevators playing the elevator game-" She glares at Jess. "The game you told her about...so I told her she can't leave without telling me and without me, and we had to hurry because school started in ten minutes and we weren't ready. So I dragged her home but the wind shut the door, and my keys were inside just like my purse and her schoolbag with her lunch, books and stuff...so I freaked out a little...and my coat was inside to and it's freezing outside. So we took the subway so I could get your keys...so I went to your classroom and you weren't there then I saw George and he told me you're here...and then she started running again...and-.."

"Wow..." Jess says looking at Rory when she rambled on and on totally forgetting the fact that there were 60 eyes looking at them.

"I know so all of that happened and the worst thing...I haven't had my coffee! And my pop tart is still waiting on me inside!" Rory says totally out of breath from her previous running and her long rant.

"Dad-"Katie starts but Jess cuts her off.

"Kate what have I told you?"

"That you love me?" Katie says innocently.

"Kate!"

"...never go out alone until I'm at least sixteen year old!" Katie says pouting.

"And how old are you?" Jess asks.

"Three and a half years old daddy!"

"Right...so..."

"So I won't do it again, but..."

"No buts young lady. I'm starved and dehydrated!" Rory says dramatically.

"I'm sorry mommy." Katie says.

"Why did you do it?" Jess asks softly to Katie but Rory answers for her.

"Because she didn't want to go to school!" Rory says glaring at Jess.

"What! What do I have to do with this?" Jess asks.

"Giving her your 'too cool for schoooool' genes." Rory says like it's obvious.

"Wait a mi-" But Jess is cut of by Rory who saw his mars in his back pocket and grabbed it.

"Aha!" She says triumphantly.

"Hey that's mine!" Jess says.

"Well I need the food!"

"Yeah me too! Give it to me!"

"No, I need it. I'm eating for two now!" Rory says not noticing what she just slipped out.

Jess just stares at her for a few moments, but the whispering brought him out of his trance.

He totally forgot about the thirty teens in front of him.

Rory is startled because she was with her back to the bleachers so she didn't see them.

"Oh...uh...what..." Rory stammers and she blushes fiercely.

"Let's move to the side...and you do something other then staring" Jess says to the students while he shoves Rory to a corner of the gym. The teens, not wanting to miss a thing, stay in their seats.

"Daddy what does mommy mean, with she is eating for two?" Katie asks still in the arms of her father.

"I don't know...I'm not sure babe..." Jess says putting her on the ground. Katie thought about it, but is soon distracted by the interesting new faces in front of her. So she walks to the bleachers. The girls were looking at her and were "aahhwing" and Katie sure loved the attention...which she hadn't got from her mother or father, perhaps her grandmother had something to do with it.

"Rory..."

"Well, uh you weren't supposed to find out this way. I was feeling a little weird and emotional and stuff. And well I was late you know so yesterday I went to the doctor...and well I'm pregnant..!" Rory says looking into Jess' eyes, Jess stays silent.

"And I know it wasn't planned and everything but..."

A smile appears on Jess' face, and he pulls Rory to him and kisses her softly on the lips.

The audience starts to whistle but Jess and Rory are too caught up in their own world.

"I don't care about it if we planned it or not, you hear me?" Jess tells her softly. Rory just nods. "Katie wasn't planned either, but hey we made it and we're happy."

"I know."

"Why didn't you tell me sooner?"

"I didn't know if...well...it's just.."

"You can tell me anything, wow...at least it explains the outburst over the keys." Jess says with a smirk, Rory smiles and they kiss again. Jess smirks. "What?" Rory asks confused.

"You know many good things happened in gyms."

"Yeah.." Rory says remembering the beginning of their relationship.

They pull apart when Katie tugs on Jess' shirt. He picks her up and they move to the class with Rory in tow.

"Well you can uh...play something...just do something like uh...play basketball or whatever." Jess says to the teens. They don't move at all but stare at the trio in front of them.

"Oh...well uh just give me your keys then we can leave..." Rory says uncomfortably.

"Yeah" Jess says and he pulls his keys out of his pocket and hands them to Rory.

Rory takes them and takes a bite of the mars bar from Jess.

Jess glares playfully at her. Rory breaks the bar in two and hands him the smaller half.

"Hey, you've got more!"

"Take it or leave it!" Rory says.

"Fine!" Jess says, when he wants to take a bite Katie looks at him with her big blue eyes.

"Daddy!" She says and she looks at him with big puppy dog eyes just like her mother.

"Not working, it's mine!"

"Daddy..."

Jess looks from Katie to the mars bar and back and gives in.

"Okay, okay!" He says and he hands her his half.

"Yay!" Katie exclaims and she gives her father a kiss on his cheek.

"Manipulator, just like your mom!" He says and he puts her on the ground.

"Come baby we should go." Rory says taking Katie's hand in hers.

"Do I have to go to school, Mommy? "

"Uh no...we're gonna go home, and watch some movies in our pj's okay? But you have to go to school tomorrow, promise?"

"Yay, I promise." Katie says and she hugs her mother's legs.

Rory kisses Jess. "I'll see you at home"

Jess nods.

"I love you."

"Love you to."

She walks to the door, "Bye guys, I'm sorry for disturbing your lesson. But don't worry, he can't even throw a ball." She says with a smirk, the students laugh but Jess didn't hear her so he just raises his eyebrow.

Katie runs out the door and Rory follows.

"Ror!" Jess calls after her. Rory turns around in the door opening.

"Yeah?"

"No coffee!" He says with a smile.

Rory smiles back and walks out of the gym.

"Okay." Jess says turning his attention to the students. "Show is over, so go do something!"

"But Mr. Mariano!" The teens whine.

"No go, play basketball, soccer or baseball, or something, come on!"

They all sigh and get up.

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petitos grasshoppertje