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
Disclaimer: Oh yeah, forgot about this, we don't own Gilmore Girls, the characters, the actors, the writers, or the town. They all belong to WB or Amy Sherman-Palladino or some other company that we are not at all affiliated with.
Jess wasn't entirely sure that she was joking. In his mind he knew she was just trying to make a point that that wouldn't happened but he still had a nagging feeling about the whole thing. He took a breath, "Would you?" he asked quietly.
Rory sighed and got up and walked over to him. "You know I wouldn't," She said as she wrapped her arms around him. "I would not do any of that...ever."
Jess held her gaze for a minute. "I know," he swallowed the lump that had formed in his throat and gave her a quick kiss. "I just don't want you to regret anything, or wonder what could have been."
She looked at him. "Regret...what?" She frowned. "Not going back to Dean!" She furrowed her eyebrows in disgust. "If I wanted to be with him, then I wouldn't be here," She informed him. "And...the only thing that I wonder is, that whenever he gets married, to whoever she may be...if they have kids..." Rory smirked. "I wonder if they'll be little over-possessive, jealous Frankensteins just like him."
Jess laughed, "I didn't mean going back to bag-boy, I meant...let's just forget it, the thought of mini-bag boys is just too funny."
"Well, what did you mean?" She asked frowning.
"I meant that I don't want you to one day realize that I've held you back from anything...nothing specific just anything." Jess shrugged, the mini-frankenstein comment had loosened up the tension at least for him although Rory looked a bit stressed again. He looked at her, kissed her in a sweet gesture to distract her and began tickling her.
"Stop it!" She said as she laughed and swatted at his hands.
Jess shook his head trying to be very serious. "It's your day off, and it doesn't seem like you were having very much fun. So I figured I just have to do something to fix that." he answered as he continued to tickle her.
"Well...I don't really know how to have a 'day off'...so teach me," Rory said as she continued to swat at his hands.
Jess grinned with the kid in the candy store look in his eye, "You sure about that Rory?" he asked, having momentarily forgotten about tickling her.
She grabbed his hands to keep him from starting again before answering. "Yes...well, I think so...should I be scared?" She asked smirking.
"Oh yes, very scared," he said mock seriously as he matched her smirk, and the wheels in his head began turning, they could do anything, well anything within reason and that Lorelai and Luke wouldn't kill them for. The problem was what exactly should they do. Rory did say that she wanted to know how to enjoy a day off, of course most of his days off involved sleeping till noon and then reading on the bridge which wasn't very thrilling. He grinned at her, "let's clean up and then the fun shall begin." he said as he headed toward the table to clear the dishes.
"Okay...I'm following your lead." Rory said as she grabbed her plate and took it to the sink. "What are we going to do?" She asked curiously.
"It's a secret," Jess answered matter-of-factly, as he began washing the dishes. "But I promise you'll love it." he smirked at her.
Rory smiled. "Allright, I bet I will."
Jess finished up the dishes and cleaning the kitchen and was beginning to formulate an actual plan, although he wasn't entirely sure how it was going to go. "So do you have any real qualms about going into Hartford for awhile?" Jess asked nonchalantly.
"None that I can think of...you can do whatever you want...you're the master of this." Rory said as she leaned against the counter.
Jess nodded his head slightly, "huh." he said looking at her, "just one quick thought, Lorelai won't kill me, will she?"
She looked at him and wondered what he was thinking. "I don't know...you decide."
Jess laughed, "I meant about driving you all the way to Hartford and back, I mean she isn't exactly fond of my driving and all." Jess paused, "why, what did you think I was talking about?"
Rory blushed and laughed nervously as she looked around the room. "This is a very nice kitchen," She commented as she avoided the question.
"Yes it is," Jess said unconvincingly as he watched Rory with her crimson cheeks look at everything but him "was there something you'd rather do today?" he asked slyly knowing that she was probably going to hit him any minute.
Rory's cheeks darkened as she squirmed around. "No...nothing in particular." She answered as she finally brought her eyes up to meet his.
"I guess we should get ready to go then," Jess said finally deciding to stop teasing her before things got really awkward.
"Yes, let's do that." Rory said as she grabbed her purse, which she had brought this morning and headed towards the door.
"Um," Jess grabbed her arm before she made it out the door, "one thing, how good are you at sweet talking Luke?"
Rory froze. "Oh, no. I totally forgot about Luke! What are we going to do!" Rory asked frowning.
Jess shrugged, "maybe I should have thought about that before." He bit his upper lip thinking. "How willing do you think Lorelai would be to loan us the jeep? Or perhaps we could just borrow Luke's truck. I mean maybe if you asked him he'd say yes" He was thinking out loud hoping maybe Rory would come up with something.
Rory started pacing. "Oh, yes. I bet my mom would just let us use the jeep. She would love that. You actually think that Luke would openly let you ditch?" Rory ranted. "Maybe...the bus?"
Jess shook his head. "I'm gonna go talk to Luke," he began to walk toward the door, "stay here, I'll be back once he agrees to let us use the truck."
Her eyes practically popped out of her head. She turned around and grabbed his arm. "Jess!" She yelled, "Are you out of your mind?" He shrugged. "Well...if you're not back in 50 years, then I want you to know that I escaped out the window, climbed a tree and walked home." She leaned forward and kissed him.
"Okay," Jess replied, "I'll be back, and soon." And with that Jess disappeared out the door to find Luke and more than likely lie to him about why he needed the truck.
Rory sat down on the couch and waited for awhile before standing back up and walking into his room. She picked up a book, sat down on his bed, and started to read.
About fifteen minutes later Jess came back upstairs and looked around the apartment. "Rory?" he called not seeing her in the living room or the kitchen, "don't tell me she really climbed down a tree," Jess muttered as he continued his search through the tiny apartment, he looked in his room and there she was on his bed reading. He perched himself against the door jamb and asked, "having fun?"
Rory jumped off the bed and looked up. "You scared me!" She said as she set down the book. "So...?"
Jess fished the keys out of his pocket and dangled them in front of her. "Sorry I scared you, so do I need to make sure you didn't steal any of my books or CDs?"
"Ha," She said smirking, "That's funny...so what'd you tell him?" She asked curiously.
"Just that you needed to pick up some books from school since you couldn't go because of your wrist and Lorelai was really busy at work and couldn't do it." Jess said as he walked toward his book shelf and scanned the titles finally finding what he was looking for and handing it to her, "you might want to read this one," he suggested as he went to his dresser got his wallet and began to leave the room. "Ready? Or did you want to climb down the tree instead?"
Rory smirked "Thank you. That's a good plan. Yeah, I think the door would probably be smart, unless you want me to break my other wrist." Rory said as she stuck the book in her purse and headed towards the door.
"We wouldn't want that, now would we." Jess said as he led her to the door, "and if you have an issue with lying" he said before he opened the door, "I really could take you to Chilton."
Rory walked out the door before turning around and smacking his arm. "No, I believe you're the one with the lying problem if I'm not mistaken...and do you WANT me to go to school?"
"Only if we can make out in the broom closet," Jess responded as he led her down the stairs and out the diner without a word to Luke.