Title: The Coffee is Always better at Lukes
Summary: A story about a regular week in Stars Hollow which includes sprained wrists, shattered doors, ditching school, I love yous, fist fights and more. Reoccurring characters include Rory, Jess, Luke, Lorelai, and Dean.
Rating: PG-13 just to be on the safe side, for mild language
Spoilers: not really, perhaps some of season 3
A/N: This was a joint effort the part of Rory and Dean are by swimchic2. Check out her other great fics The part of Jess is played by me, and the part of Lorelai is played by Literati4Life and now more recently erni414 and the part of Luke was played by MiloIsMine.
It was just after finals at Chilton Preparatory school, there were still a few things that needed to be done, meetings to attend, and award ceremonies and the like, but as for the work and studying it was over and finished with for the year. So in the tradition of Chilton it was party week. Madeleine was bouncing through the halls handing out flyers to everyone for her party that would be Friday night. She approached Rory at her locker. "Hi!" Madeleine said cheerily, "come please, oh and since you live in Stars Hollow bring a group of friends the more the merrier!" She handed Rory the flyer and was just about to head to the next unsuspecting Chiltonite...
"Um, Thanks Madeline!" Rory shouts down hall as Madeline throws a paper in Paris's face. "I guess I could invite Lane, Dave, and Jess," she mumbles to herself. Rory drives home with anticipation about the party,and when she finally arrives home, she bursts through door, "Mom, mom!," Rory yells, "Are you home?" Rory repeats the question twice before she decides that her mother must not be home....
Lorelai was just unlocking the front door when it burst open. "Jeez!" Lorelai jumped. "Rory, why are you trying to give your young vibrant mother a heart attack?" Lorelai asked as she walked in and put her purse and keys down.
"Sorry Mom, but Guess what!?!," Rory said as she followed her mom into the kitchen.
"Um, aliens came and blew up Chilton?" Lorelai said getting excited "ooh, wait, you were chosen to be the next American Idol or um...you got a tatoo that says mama's girl." Lorelai was beaming as she sat down and took off her heels, pleased with her three guesses.
"How did you know?" Rory said jokingly as she sat down. "No but seriously, I got invited to a party on Friday night," Rory said smiling.
"Really? So are you gonna go?" Lorelai questioned, "I mean it is a Chilton party, right? Don't you see enough of those snobby preps? Of course, if you did decide to go..." the wheels were already turning in Lorelai's head, "then we would have a legit excuse to get out of dinner at the grandparents, you would be going to a party and I would have the daunting task of helping you prepare." Lorelai smiled that wicked smile.
Before Rory could answer her mom the doorbell rang.
"C'mon Rory, open up. I come bearing gifts, or rather take-out and coffee. But it's all the same to you right?" Jess yelled from the front porch. Jess waits a second "Roorrryyy!" he bellowed once more as he smirked waiting for her to open the door.
Lorelai swung the door open before Rory could get to it. "Well if it isn't a young hoodlum standing on my doorstep." Lorelai replied with a slight hint of glare that she tried to hide. "Show me the coffee, and no one gets hurt." She said imitating the old gangster movies.
Rory yells "I'm coming!" as she runs to open the door. "Hi," she says as Jess gently locks his lips over hers. "Mm," Rory says smiling. "Come on in," Rory says as she follows him in through the door.
"hmph" Lorelai pouted. "Sweets why do you have to ruin all my fun?" She whines, then turns and smiles sweetly at Jess when Rory gives her the "be nice" look.
"Fine I get it you want me to give you some space, so give me the coffee and I'm off to do...something...with the....uh..."she looks around the kitchen..."clock timer, your friend and mine clicker." Lorelai then takes one of the coffee cups and the clock timer and goes upstairs to give her daughter some time alone with Jess.
"So," Jess wrapped his arms around Rory, "what took you so long to answer the door?" He raised his eyebrows and then whispered, "just for that I'm not giving you your suprise."
"Well I...Suprise! What suprise?" Rory yelled excitedly. "Oh, PLEASE tell me what the suprise is," she begged making a pouty face.
"Hmmm...." Jess said dragging out the suspense, "I'm not entirely sure that you deserve the suprise. So Rory, why don't you go ahead and tell me what took you so long to answer the door, and then I'll decide." He was enjoying torturing her. He had to stifle a laugh at her cute little pout.
"Ok, fine" Rory said still pouting, "I was in the kitchen telling my mom about a party I got invited to and that was when the doorbell rang, and I didn't know who it could be at the door and then i heard you call my name and then I ran to the door and then we kissed and then you came in and my mom went upstairs and now your being mean and won't tell me about my suprise," Rory said rambling on and on until she noticed that Jess was cracking up.
Jess took a breath and tried to compose himself, he looked at her and smirked, "and you call that an excuse?" he teased. "So a party, huh," Jess decided to torture Rory a bit longer by not telling her about the suprise, "so are you gonna go?"
Seeing the look on Rory's face that said I'm going to kill you if you don't tell me what the suprise is he finally gave in.
"Here," he said pulling out a small wrapped package from his back pocket, taped to the front was a single rose, inside was a signed copy of one or Rory's favorite books, "I just found this in a used bookstore and thought you might like it." he told her as she opened the package. He waited for a reaction.
"Ahhh...Ohmygosh...I don't know what to say," Rory said squeling with delight. "Thank you!" she said hugging him tightly.
He hugged her back, but then he started "uh...rory...can't...breath." Jess choked out as Rory released him from the hug and looked a bit sheepish. He smirked at her, and unsure what else to say he decided to change the subject, "so what about this party?" he picked up the flyer that was on the table.
"uh, well it's at Madeline's on Friday night and she invited me and said that I could bring some friends if I wanted, and so I was, uh wondering if maybe, if you weren't working, that you would come with me, that is if I can get out of Friday night dinner, but you don't have to, I would understand if you don't want to," Rory said babbling nervously.
"ah jeez." Jess said running a hand through his hair, he looked at Rory. "Do you really want me to go?" he asked her.
"Um...It doesn't really matter,ya know I could always just go with Lane, or Paris, that would be interesting...or I could go with both Lane and Paris...." Rory was saying until he cut her off.
"Rory," Jess interrupted her rambling, "I'll go ok." Then he thought for a minute, and smirked, "you're cute when you squirm" he said quoting something she had said to him earlier that year.
"You will? Really? Oh thank you, the thought of going with Paris was frightening. And I am not cute when I squirm...you are." Rory said grinning from ear to ear.
Jess grinned at her, "so shall we?" he gestured toward the food that he had brought over.
"oh, I'm starving! What did you bring anyway?" Rory asked walking to the table.
"Let's see," Jess said as he started unloading the bag, "burgers, fries, onion rings, some apple pie, and a few brownies. And of course a thermos full of coffee." He started setting things out on the table, "oh and Luke packed some extra for Lorelai just in case." Jess then started opening up the cabinet doors. "Plates, plates, plates..." he muttered searching for something to put the food on.
"Mm, sounds good." Rory said jumping up to find the plates for Jess, "So you never told me why you came over in the first place..."
"oh...um..." Jess was beginning to squirm, "y'know, Luke just gave me the night off, and I haven't seen much of you lately with school and finals and well I just." his tone dropped and he hoped she couldn't here him. "I just missed seeing you" he muttered under his breath.
"Oh...My little Jess has a heart after all" Rory said laughing as she finished her hamburger.
Jess rolled his eyes at her and then sarcastically replied, "Don't spread that around, you'll ruin my reputation."
"Oh, how could i even think about ruining your bad boy reputation." Rory shot back.
Jess glared at her and then began to clear the table
Lorelai came back down the stairs after she became so incredibly bored from having nothing to do. "RORYYYY." Lorelai whined, she walked into the kitchen, "hold it right there diner boy." Lorelai said as she dramatically sniffed the air. "I smell burgers, and onion rings..." she eyes the remaining food that was still in the bag, "you were holding out on me!" She pouts and then sits down where Jess had been sitting, "how could you Rory? and you Jess, why couldn't you have at least told ME you brought food before I went upstairs, I mean you like being in this house right, well if you withhold food again I'm going to make sure that you never step foot into this house again. Understand?" She then grabbed Rory's plate before Jess could take it off the table and began piling all the remaining food onto it. She took a bite, made a face then looked at them. "It's cold" she whimpered.
"ma'am" Jess said to her, knowing it annoyed her. "Would you care to lick the remainder of the food off these plates before I wash them?" He smirked at Rory, who looked like she was going to kill him, then turned to Lorelai who was glaring at him hard. "I was only kidding" he said deciding to drop the jokes and just mind his own business.
"Dirty," Lorelai mumbled, then realized she should be mean to Jess so she added, "Haha," Lorelai's voice dripped with sarcasm, "but y'know what, if you and mini-me finished all the food and I was starving I might actually lick every last crumb off the plates, and the table top, and the floor..." Lorelai stopped finally to pay more attention to the food that she was now shoveling into her mouth.
"Jeez Ms. Gilmore," Jess said as he turned off the sink and wiped his hand on a dish towel, "I was only joking." Feeling a dirty look from Rory he decided to try to make peace with Lorelai. "Oh hey, I almost forgot, Luke sent this for you," he said pulling out a second thermos of coffee. "He mentioned something about adding too much coffee, or not enough water...something to that effect."
"Bless you child," Lorelai said forgetting her supposed anger as she grabbed the thermos away from him and took a cautious sip. "Oh my God! This is the most amazing coffee ever." Lorelai was beaming as she took another sip. Soon all the coffee was gone. "I think I'm going to go see Luke and personally thank him for being my coffee angel." Lorelai got up and headed into the living room to search for her purse.
"Allright, by mom!" Rory yelled. She waited untill she heard the door slam before she said "Jess, what have I told you about being nice to my mom? You want her to like you don't you? If you get on my mom's bad side she'll make your life a living hell and believe me you don't want that."
"Jeez Rory, I gave her the coffee didn't I?" Jess said brushing off Rory's comment. He didn't mean to act the way he did, but whenever Lorelai was around he always hid behind his sarcastic facade. Jess turned back around to face Rory, "I'll try harder to be nice to your mom if you want me to, ok? Will that make you happy Rory?"
"Do you promise?" Rory asked as she began walking towards him.
"Fine," Jess rolled his eyes and tried to look bored. "But it takes two to tango, Rory."
Summary: A story about a regular week in Stars Hollow which includes sprained wrists, shattered doors, ditching school, I love yous, fist fights and more. Reoccurring characters include Rory, Jess, Luke, Lorelai, and Dean.
Rating: PG-13 just to be on the safe side, for mild language
Spoilers: not really, perhaps some of season 3
A/N: This was a joint effort the part of Rory and Dean are by swimchic2. Check out her other great fics The part of Jess is played by me, and the part of Lorelai is played by Literati4Life and now more recently erni414 and the part of Luke was played by MiloIsMine.
It was just after finals at Chilton Preparatory school, there were still a few things that needed to be done, meetings to attend, and award ceremonies and the like, but as for the work and studying it was over and finished with for the year. So in the tradition of Chilton it was party week. Madeleine was bouncing through the halls handing out flyers to everyone for her party that would be Friday night. She approached Rory at her locker. "Hi!" Madeleine said cheerily, "come please, oh and since you live in Stars Hollow bring a group of friends the more the merrier!" She handed Rory the flyer and was just about to head to the next unsuspecting Chiltonite...
"Um, Thanks Madeline!" Rory shouts down hall as Madeline throws a paper in Paris's face. "I guess I could invite Lane, Dave, and Jess," she mumbles to herself. Rory drives home with anticipation about the party,and when she finally arrives home, she bursts through door, "Mom, mom!," Rory yells, "Are you home?" Rory repeats the question twice before she decides that her mother must not be home....
Lorelai was just unlocking the front door when it burst open. "Jeez!" Lorelai jumped. "Rory, why are you trying to give your young vibrant mother a heart attack?" Lorelai asked as she walked in and put her purse and keys down.
"Sorry Mom, but Guess what!?!," Rory said as she followed her mom into the kitchen.
"Um, aliens came and blew up Chilton?" Lorelai said getting excited "ooh, wait, you were chosen to be the next American Idol or um...you got a tatoo that says mama's girl." Lorelai was beaming as she sat down and took off her heels, pleased with her three guesses.
"How did you know?" Rory said jokingly as she sat down. "No but seriously, I got invited to a party on Friday night," Rory said smiling.
"Really? So are you gonna go?" Lorelai questioned, "I mean it is a Chilton party, right? Don't you see enough of those snobby preps? Of course, if you did decide to go..." the wheels were already turning in Lorelai's head, "then we would have a legit excuse to get out of dinner at the grandparents, you would be going to a party and I would have the daunting task of helping you prepare." Lorelai smiled that wicked smile.
Before Rory could answer her mom the doorbell rang.
"C'mon Rory, open up. I come bearing gifts, or rather take-out and coffee. But it's all the same to you right?" Jess yelled from the front porch. Jess waits a second "Roorrryyy!" he bellowed once more as he smirked waiting for her to open the door.
Lorelai swung the door open before Rory could get to it. "Well if it isn't a young hoodlum standing on my doorstep." Lorelai replied with a slight hint of glare that she tried to hide. "Show me the coffee, and no one gets hurt." She said imitating the old gangster movies.
Rory yells "I'm coming!" as she runs to open the door. "Hi," she says as Jess gently locks his lips over hers. "Mm," Rory says smiling. "Come on in," Rory says as she follows him in through the door.
"hmph" Lorelai pouted. "Sweets why do you have to ruin all my fun?" She whines, then turns and smiles sweetly at Jess when Rory gives her the "be nice" look.
"Fine I get it you want me to give you some space, so give me the coffee and I'm off to do...something...with the....uh..."she looks around the kitchen..."clock timer, your friend and mine clicker." Lorelai then takes one of the coffee cups and the clock timer and goes upstairs to give her daughter some time alone with Jess.
"So," Jess wrapped his arms around Rory, "what took you so long to answer the door?" He raised his eyebrows and then whispered, "just for that I'm not giving you your suprise."
"Well I...Suprise! What suprise?" Rory yelled excitedly. "Oh, PLEASE tell me what the suprise is," she begged making a pouty face.
"Hmmm...." Jess said dragging out the suspense, "I'm not entirely sure that you deserve the suprise. So Rory, why don't you go ahead and tell me what took you so long to answer the door, and then I'll decide." He was enjoying torturing her. He had to stifle a laugh at her cute little pout.
"Ok, fine" Rory said still pouting, "I was in the kitchen telling my mom about a party I got invited to and that was when the doorbell rang, and I didn't know who it could be at the door and then i heard you call my name and then I ran to the door and then we kissed and then you came in and my mom went upstairs and now your being mean and won't tell me about my suprise," Rory said rambling on and on until she noticed that Jess was cracking up.
Jess took a breath and tried to compose himself, he looked at her and smirked, "and you call that an excuse?" he teased. "So a party, huh," Jess decided to torture Rory a bit longer by not telling her about the suprise, "so are you gonna go?"
Seeing the look on Rory's face that said I'm going to kill you if you don't tell me what the suprise is he finally gave in.
"Here," he said pulling out a small wrapped package from his back pocket, taped to the front was a single rose, inside was a signed copy of one or Rory's favorite books, "I just found this in a used bookstore and thought you might like it." he told her as she opened the package. He waited for a reaction.
"Ahhh...Ohmygosh...I don't know what to say," Rory said squeling with delight. "Thank you!" she said hugging him tightly.
He hugged her back, but then he started "uh...rory...can't...breath." Jess choked out as Rory released him from the hug and looked a bit sheepish. He smirked at her, and unsure what else to say he decided to change the subject, "so what about this party?" he picked up the flyer that was on the table.
"uh, well it's at Madeline's on Friday night and she invited me and said that I could bring some friends if I wanted, and so I was, uh wondering if maybe, if you weren't working, that you would come with me, that is if I can get out of Friday night dinner, but you don't have to, I would understand if you don't want to," Rory said babbling nervously.
"ah jeez." Jess said running a hand through his hair, he looked at Rory. "Do you really want me to go?" he asked her.
"Um...It doesn't really matter,ya know I could always just go with Lane, or Paris, that would be interesting...or I could go with both Lane and Paris...." Rory was saying until he cut her off.
"Rory," Jess interrupted her rambling, "I'll go ok." Then he thought for a minute, and smirked, "you're cute when you squirm" he said quoting something she had said to him earlier that year.
"You will? Really? Oh thank you, the thought of going with Paris was frightening. And I am not cute when I squirm...you are." Rory said grinning from ear to ear.
Jess grinned at her, "so shall we?" he gestured toward the food that he had brought over.
"oh, I'm starving! What did you bring anyway?" Rory asked walking to the table.
"Let's see," Jess said as he started unloading the bag, "burgers, fries, onion rings, some apple pie, and a few brownies. And of course a thermos full of coffee." He started setting things out on the table, "oh and Luke packed some extra for Lorelai just in case." Jess then started opening up the cabinet doors. "Plates, plates, plates..." he muttered searching for something to put the food on.
"Mm, sounds good." Rory said jumping up to find the plates for Jess, "So you never told me why you came over in the first place..."
"oh...um..." Jess was beginning to squirm, "y'know, Luke just gave me the night off, and I haven't seen much of you lately with school and finals and well I just." his tone dropped and he hoped she couldn't here him. "I just missed seeing you" he muttered under his breath.
"Oh...My little Jess has a heart after all" Rory said laughing as she finished her hamburger.
Jess rolled his eyes at her and then sarcastically replied, "Don't spread that around, you'll ruin my reputation."
"Oh, how could i even think about ruining your bad boy reputation." Rory shot back.
Jess glared at her and then began to clear the table
Lorelai came back down the stairs after she became so incredibly bored from having nothing to do. "RORYYYY." Lorelai whined, she walked into the kitchen, "hold it right there diner boy." Lorelai said as she dramatically sniffed the air. "I smell burgers, and onion rings..." she eyes the remaining food that was still in the bag, "you were holding out on me!" She pouts and then sits down where Jess had been sitting, "how could you Rory? and you Jess, why couldn't you have at least told ME you brought food before I went upstairs, I mean you like being in this house right, well if you withhold food again I'm going to make sure that you never step foot into this house again. Understand?" She then grabbed Rory's plate before Jess could take it off the table and began piling all the remaining food onto it. She took a bite, made a face then looked at them. "It's cold" she whimpered.
"ma'am" Jess said to her, knowing it annoyed her. "Would you care to lick the remainder of the food off these plates before I wash them?" He smirked at Rory, who looked like she was going to kill him, then turned to Lorelai who was glaring at him hard. "I was only kidding" he said deciding to drop the jokes and just mind his own business.
"Dirty," Lorelai mumbled, then realized she should be mean to Jess so she added, "Haha," Lorelai's voice dripped with sarcasm, "but y'know what, if you and mini-me finished all the food and I was starving I might actually lick every last crumb off the plates, and the table top, and the floor..." Lorelai stopped finally to pay more attention to the food that she was now shoveling into her mouth.
"Jeez Ms. Gilmore," Jess said as he turned off the sink and wiped his hand on a dish towel, "I was only joking." Feeling a dirty look from Rory he decided to try to make peace with Lorelai. "Oh hey, I almost forgot, Luke sent this for you," he said pulling out a second thermos of coffee. "He mentioned something about adding too much coffee, or not enough water...something to that effect."
"Bless you child," Lorelai said forgetting her supposed anger as she grabbed the thermos away from him and took a cautious sip. "Oh my God! This is the most amazing coffee ever." Lorelai was beaming as she took another sip. Soon all the coffee was gone. "I think I'm going to go see Luke and personally thank him for being my coffee angel." Lorelai got up and headed into the living room to search for her purse.
"Allright, by mom!" Rory yelled. She waited untill she heard the door slam before she said "Jess, what have I told you about being nice to my mom? You want her to like you don't you? If you get on my mom's bad side she'll make your life a living hell and believe me you don't want that."
"Jeez Rory, I gave her the coffee didn't I?" Jess said brushing off Rory's comment. He didn't mean to act the way he did, but whenever Lorelai was around he always hid behind his sarcastic facade. Jess turned back around to face Rory, "I'll try harder to be nice to your mom if you want me to, ok? Will that make you happy Rory?"
"Do you promise?" Rory asked as she began walking towards him.
"Fine," Jess rolled his eyes and tried to look bored. "But it takes two to tango, Rory."