Title: Like Jess, Like Eliza
Author: Hadlee May
Summary: In other chapters
Disclaimer: GG is not mine.
AN: Sorry it took so long, I was like major sick...kidney infection...caused by the delightful CAFFEINE! Anyways, I Thought long and hard about this chapter, I wrote it, and it got deleted by the computer...I wrote it again, by my lap top broke...Finally, I wrote it here...Halloween chapter.
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Chapter 3
"An elephant?" Jess dead panned, looking at Lorelai with an unreadable expression on his face. The older woman shrugged under his stare, un sure of what to say, giggles escaping, even though she tried hard not to. "An elephant? You want my daughter to be an elephant for Halloween?" He asked her. Lorelai's giggles had turned into full on laughing.
"What's wrong with an elephant? It's cute." Lorelai nodded over to Eliza who was walking around the diner, entertaining customers, dressed in her costume, "and besides the fact that she likes it, she's a toddler," Lorelai sighed, "not many options for a toddler, unless you wanted tinkie winkie" At that moment, Luke walked in from the back of the diner, a plate in hand, hearing only the words tinkie winkie. He rolled his eyes.
"I don't want to know." He stated walking by, Jess and Lorelai's eyes following him for a moment.
"Everything's wrong with elephants." He turned his attention back to Lorelai. "All the other two year olds are going to be an elephant..." It came out as an unintentional pout, and this caused Lorelai to laugh even more.
"All the others..." She cut herself off. "You're like a toddler, Jess...it's either this or we can own up to Zach and Brian's suggestion for a costume." Lorelai got serious.
"Suggestion, what suggestion?" Jess asked, confused. Zach and Brian, though they being two of his best friends, thought the pair to be quite, well, slow at times. The two suggesting a costume for a two year old was almost funny, though, he worried.
"Yeah, I believe it was...Tomie." Lorelai laughed.
"Tomie, but she's..."
"I think they were talking about the head..." Lorelai explained. Jess rolled his eyes. That was something Zach and Brian, more likely Brian, would suggest. The two liked Asian Horror films almost as much as they loved making music.
"I can see that scenario ten years down the road...What was I, daddy? Oh, you were the head of Tomie, an evil demon girl who can regenerate herself..." He mocked a short conversation for Lorelai. After a moment of silence, he sighed, "elephant it is...let me get it off her before she gets it dirty." He sighed, walking over to his daughter who was currently entranced by something Kirk was doing with his food. "Come on Eliza, let's get you something pretty on, yeah?" He asked, lifting her off her feet. Kirk waved goodbye to her, grinning to see Eliza return the gesture. She might be the only Mariano that can stand you. Jess thought wryly as he headed up the steps to the upstairs apartment.
Eliza, fully capable of streaking down to her diaper did so as Jess searched through a drawer for a dress. Turning around he found her dancing in front of the TV, shaking her bottom side to the routine that the, for some reason still on the network, purple dinosaur, Barney. He chuckled.
"Come on, Big girl, time to get dressed." He stated and she screamed in fright, running from the living room to the kitchen, knocking over several of Luke's things as she did so. Jess groaned. "So this is the terrible two's." He spoke to her as he chased her around the table and into his bedroom. She had conveniently hid underneath his bed, the only clean area in the entire room. He got on his hands and knees and sweet coaxed her out from underneath, promising sweets and an entire day with Michel, whom she loved to play with during her days staying at the inn while Jess worked in Hartford.
Catching her as she climbed out, he sighed, mumbling, "This better not last long, I can't do this everyday." She was calm as he slipped her yellow dress over her head. He didn't attempt putting her shoes on. She'd been all but excited to take off her shoes at random times. For fun, she hid them, forcing her father to go and buy new pairs several times a month.
He cuddled her as they walked towards the apartment door. "I love you, even if you're being terrible." He told her walking down the steps and into the diner. Lorelai was now sitting at the counter, sipping out of a large coffee cup, while Luke was gruffly speaking to some customers he apparently didn't like. Jess rolled his eyes to see that it was Dean and Lindsay.
Deciding to ignore them, he sat next to Lorelai. "How bad was Rory when she was two?" He asked. The subject was touchy for both him, and Lorelai, who'd had a long distance phone relationship with her daughter since Jess had arrived in town, Eliza in tow.
"She was good, for the most part. Her terrible two's mostly consisted of streaking down the stairs at the hotel." Jess laughed at that. He was glad Eliza had obviously taken after him in the terrible two department. He wasn't sure he could handle Eliza streaking all over the diner for the town to talk about him being an unfit father.
He set Eliza down, continuing small talk with Lorelai, who was eager for Halloween. "You're letting me go with the two of you right, because Chris is in town, and he's bringing Gigi..." Lorelai trailed off.
"Yeah, tag her along, that way Eliza can impose her terribleness on someone new." Jess laughed.
HALLOWEEN NIGHT
Eliza looked like an Elephant like Angel, dressed in her costume. Lorelai had put some white makeup on her face, dabbing red face paint on her cheeks for good measure. She could have easily have been fooled as look a like for Dumbo. "She does look cute." Jess had complimented Lorelai nearly two hours ago, at the beginning of their night. She was holding the blonde three year old's hand tightly, for fear that she would run off. Something she had tried to several times since the night had begun.
"Duh." Lorelai had smarmily responded as they came upon Taylor's driveway. Taylor, always in the mood for decorating for holidays, had somewhat slacked for Halloween, only a scarecrow sitting on his porch. Lorelai had explained last year that Taylor only participated because it made him look good. The old man wasn't much of a fan of all hallow's eve.
Eliza, excited ran up to Taylor's door and started shouting his name. Jess and Lorelai laughed, following her up the driveway.
Taylor opened the door with a large grin. He kept his grin as he handed both the children candy. "Thanks Taylor." Lorelai shouted as they started off towards home. The night had been fun, the kids loving the sound of candy falling into their pumpkin buckets...
As the night ended, Jess thanked Lorelai for her company and headed back to the diner, which was, surprisingly decorated, thanks to Eliza's puppy dog eyes, and Lorelai's persuading.
He wasn't surprised to find Luke not there. His uncle spent a lot of time at Lorelai's, even when Chris stopped by. There was, of course, rivalry between the two, but they got along for Lorelai's sake, and didn't mind, really, hanging out together. They had grown to be quite competitive with a play station 2 game that Lorelai had bought for her own amusement.
"You ready for bed, kid?" Jess asked as they entered the apartment. Of course, Eliza shook her head. Jess, though, wasn't up for arguments, and took her to the bathroom, gently wiping off the face make up and changing her from the elephant suit to her pajamas, which had been laid out earlier.
Laying her down in bed, Jess smiled at his daughter. "Can you read to me?" Eliza asked. Jess grinned wide and pulled a book out of his book shelf. Oliver Twist. It was one of Eliza's favorite books. He was sure he'd read it out loud hundreds of times to appease his daughter. He never minded.
Reading lasted ten minutes before she finally drifted into sleep. Putting the book down, he stood up. For a few long moments, he stared at her. "I love you, Eliza." He whispered before leaving his bedroom and curling up on the couch, content. He fell asleep soon after.
AN: Not so good, yeah? Sorry, it was a filler chapter....I'm contemplating whether or not I want to skip a year. I mean, it's going to be the same blah blah blah, no plot line.
I had always planned to take Eliza and Jess to the city when she was four, but hadn't thought of a good reason... But I thought of one...Rory...She comes down to announce something...things happen, it's when Jess decides he can't live forever in Stars Hollow...yeah, anyways, should I just skip to chapter 4...or age 4?
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