Author: Hadlee May
Summary: See first chapter
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Thankyous:
Goldengirl736 - I like your suggestion, and there's a big chance I might use it, incorporated into something else I concoct in my free time (that is if I can hold off getting a new job to a later date) Thanks for the review!!
Aimie: That's a great idea. My intentional vision for this was to show the dynamics of a relationship between Jess and Eliza, and occasionally, I might forget, purposely, Rory. Thanks.
Smile1: Every father's worst nightmare: Their daughter's first boyfriend. LOL. All these ideas. I might just throw them into one and call it a chapter. Thanks for the support!
Jemma: That's another nightmare for a single father. Looks like it might end up being a partly Lorelai chapter.
PinkPrincess1: I think that'd be a good one, getting pushed off a swing. I might throw this one in this chapter along with another suggestion.
AN: I have had the roughest week possible. I mean, when does life become like a television show? In reality? Yeah, well, mine has become an episode of CSI, topped off with being interviewed by cops and detectives. Fortunately for everyone, I had nothing to do with it. They found some bodies in a car, shot to death, and wanted statements from the neighbors. Of course, my luck, the car had connections to my next door neighbor's house and I had to give like three statements. You should feel the pounding in your heart when a detective comes to your friend's house looking for you. Yeah. I should write a CSI story.
Anyways, about the story. I really liked the suggestions everyone gave me, and I know that I do want to give a few years of life in her young years. I do plan on using each and everyone of your suggestions in some way.
Chapter Summary: Broken arms equals pampering and visits to Stars Hollow.
Chapter 6
Jess nodded his head to the beat of the music coming from the head phones as he shelved books, the sounds of The Wonders sailing through his ears. He wasn't quite sure he liked the band, but Lane had put it the song somewhere in between a few songs that he had actually liked. He looked at his watch for a spare second. It was close to noon and the place had magically cleared out at the end of everyone's lunch break, giving him some time to do what was needed to be done. The customers had left the place in shambles, leaving books lying carelessly on the shelves, stacks away from where they had originally been put in the first place.
He was startled when he felt a tap on the shoulder. It was Mr. Kratz. "Jess, phone call for you, sounds urgent." The old man spoke when the headphones were removed. Jess nodded, brushing past him and heading towards the check out desk.
"Jess Mariano." He answered casually, turning the volume down so that the caller would be unable to hear it through the microphone in the telephone.
"Hello, Mr. Mariano, this is Heather Dukas at the New York Central Hospital-"
"Is it Eliza?" Suddenly, he felt tightening in his chest, "is she alright?" he continued.
"She's fine," He didn't let the woman finish, hanging up the phone and putting his coat on.
"I gotta get down to the hospital, it's Eliza." He shouted to his boss before leaving the store in a rush.
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"Hi, my daughter's here. Mariano." He spoke as he walked towards the information desk. The nurse looked at him annoyed.
"Daddy!!" He heard from the hallway. He spun around to see Eliza running down the hallway, her dark hair flowing behind her, her left arm encased in a pink cast. "Look, I got a pink cast. The doctor gave me a sucker and he said that people could draw on-"
Jess lifted her into his arms, relieved. Even though she was only a little broken, he thought, momentarily that he might have been near a heart attack when he had gotten the call.
"Are you okay?" He asked her, setting her down on the ground, running his hand across her face and through her hair, pushing back her chin length bangs behind her ears. Eliza grinned, smiling. Gently, he lifted her pink arm and touched it. "Does it hurt?" He asked. She nodded, then shrugged.
"She's going to be fine, Mr. Mariano." A man in a white lab coat walked up behind the pair, a smile on her face.
"She'll get the cast off in two months, I've given her a prescription for the pain." The doctor patted Eliza on the head affectionately before going into another room where another patient waited.
Jess stood up, shaking the doctor's hand and shaking it with a small grin. "Now, how exactly did this happen? And why pink?"
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"By the time she gets through with marking on her cast, there's going to be no more pink left." Luke said as the two men watched Lorelai sign Eliza's cast.
"I'm sure Eliza wont care." Jess replied, leaning his back against the counter of the now empty diner. Luke chuckled. "She's using that thing as an excuse for everything. 'Daddy, can you do this, my arm wont allow me to do my homework..' even though she writes with the other hand."
"I'm sure you would have done the same." Luke shrugged.
"Probably." Jess agreed, then, "Uncle Luke, can you come turn this page for me?" Teasingly.
"I would have broken your other arm." Luke said sternly. Jess smiled, getting up and walking towards Eliza and Lorelai.
"Come on, kiddo, let's get you upstairs, it's past your bed time." He said.
"But Daddy, my arm hurts, I can't go to bed." She argued. Jess laughed a bit.
"It'll feel better once you lay down." She still fussed. "Kid, Grandma will keel over if you don't let her get some sleep."
"Not really." Lorelai spoke for herself, then smiled, "Hey, Jess, I have an idea." The woman had a sly grin on her face. Both Luke and Jess noticed and prepared themselves for what was about to come out of her mouth, "I think you should get Eliza a puppy, I bet that would take all the pain away." The words were worse than what Jess would have originally imagined.
"A puppy? Are you crazy?" Jess said, but Eliza was already jumping at the idea.
"Ooh, Daddy can I?" She gave him a puppy dog look and he was sold.
"Thanks, Lorelai." He commented dryly before walking Eliza up the stairs, his feet stomping angrily against the stairs.
"You're evil." Luke commented.
Lorelai smiled, "I know."
-End Chapter 6-
AN2: That was it, I'm not sure it was the best, but said excuse from the original author's note has distracted me a lot. Well,l that's it. Please Review.