MARY AND MAGDALENE

A FANFICTION SCRIPT BY LEXAPOWER

(ILOVEJESS69 ON THE GILMORE GIRLS MESSAGE BOARDS)

CONTACT: I do not own Gilmore Girls or have any say over what happens on the show. This is just a FAN FICTION. The following script contains no spoilers, only what I WISH would happen. I assume no responsibility if any of the following events listed in this script DO happen on the show in the future. Gilmore girls and all the characters in the following script are the property of Amy Sherman Palladino, Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions, and the WB.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: The following script takes place episode 6.11, and directly follows It Should've Been Jess, I Wish That I Was Jessie's Girl, and A Gilmore Thanksgiving, scripts I wrote that take place 6.08, 6.09, and 6.10. I am in the process of writing a series of scripts that take place during Season 6, rewriting the season. The story begins with Jess's return, and mainly revolves around the Rory/Jess/Logan love triangle. Luke and Lorelai are also involved. Although I suggest that you read all of the scripts, feel free to jump right in with this one. Both positive and negative feedback is always welcome.

SUMMARY: A woman from Jess's past has him wondering if he could be a father. Meanwhile, Literati gets some surprising reviews, Rory loses an old friend, and unexpectedly makes a new one.

RATED TV-14 for mild language, suggestive dialogue, and sexual situations.

To those of you who are visiting fans from the WB message board, thank you for your support and I apologize for the technical difficulties. Thank you to all of you- you were my first fans, the people who made me decide to write this series to begin with. I write this for you.

FADE IN:

EXT. STARS HOLLOW - DAY

LORELAI and RORY are walking down the street. LORELAI is walking PAUL ANKA. RORY holds Literati, JESS'S book in her hand, and reads as they walk.

LORELAI: You're going to walk into a telephone pole.

RORY: And Luke is not going to let you bring a dog into his diner.

LORELAI: Yes he is. Paul Anka is part of the family now. He can eat there too.

RORY looks back down towards the book. She almost walks into a pedestrian. LORELAI grabs her by the shoulders and gently pushes her out of the way.

LORELAI: Watch out for pedestrians, sweetie. You've read that thing what, fifty times now?

RORY: (without looking up from her book) Six. And I still find something new every time. (looking up from her book, with a cute, childlike enthusiasm) In fact, I'm going to read it forty times. When I met Jess, he said he read HOWL and Other Poems about forty times. He mentioned that in here. Which you would know if you'd read it.

LORELAI: (defensively) I'm getting to it. Mommy has been very busy at the Inn lately.

RORY: With..?

LORELAI: (stuttering) Uh, well, see, we just hired some new night workers, and I have to train them...

RORY: Since when you do train night workers?

LORELAI: (stutters more) Since...the other night workers got sick...

RORY: Uh-huh.

LORELAI: And Sookie hasn't been feeling her best lately. Some bug going around. So I've had to help out in the kitchen.

RORY: Because that's not what the other members of the kitchen staff are for.

LORELAI: Well obviously, they've got the bug too, so they're useless.

RORY: And Michel, is he sick too?

LORELAI: As a matter of fact-

RORY: Let me guess. Sars.

LORELAI: (dramatically) Worse! The bird flu!

RORY: (rolling her eyes) The bird flu.

LORELAI: Yes. It's a deadly disease. It's striking the nation. You could be next.

RORY: So you haven't read Jess's book because Michel has the bird flu.

The girls enter LUKE'S DINER.

LORELAI: Exactly.

They sit down at the counter. RORY closes the book. LORELAI pulls a chair up to the counter. PAUL ANKA jumps up and sits on it.

RORY: Are you sure it doesn't have anything to do with the fact that, oh I don't know, it was written by Jess?

LORELAI: I beg your pardon?

RORY: And we all know you don't exactly like Jess...

LORELAI: (pretending to act shocked) I do too like Jess!

RORY: You do not.

LUKE comes over and pours the girls some coffee.

LORELAI: (to LUKE) Tell her I like Jess.

LUKE: (to RORY) She likes Jess.

LUKE makes a puzzled face.

LUKE: (with a disgusted look, to LORELAI) You like Jess?

LORELAI: I don't LIKE Jess, like think he's cute, I just like him, you know, as Luke's nephew.

RORY: He does look like Luke. I could see how you'd be attracted to him.

LORELAI: Oh, gross, stop!

RORY smirks and sips her coffee. JESS comes downstairs into the diner. He looks at RORY. RORY smiles at him as she sips her coffee. LUKE walks behind the counter to put the coffee pot down.

LUKE: (to JESS) Lorelai like's you, but she doesn't think you're cute.

JESS: I don't wanna know.

LUKE goes to serve orders.

LORELAI: Okay, so maybe there was a time when he wasn't my best friend. And although we haven't exactly pulled a Parent Trap, we're starting to see eye to eye.

RORY: Did you ever think you might actually like it?

LORELAI: A book written by a guy who had sex with my daughter about trying to have sex with my daughter?

RORY: (in a hushed voice) Say that loud enough for everyone to hear, Mom.

LORELAI: Sorry.

JESS walks over towards them from behind the counter.

LORELAI: (to JESS) Hi Jess.

JESS: (to LORELAI) Hi.

JESS looks at the counter at Rory's book. He smiles.

JESS: (to RORY) Hi.

RORY: (smiling) Hi.

PAUL ANKA barks at JESS. JESS jumps, startled.

JESS: What the hell is that?

LORELAI: This is Paul Anka. Didn't Rory tell you we got a dog?

JESS: (giving RORY a mean look) No...she didn't.

RORY: Must have slipped my mind.

LORELAI: He probably never comes out when you're at the house...he's shy around new people. And he's scared of hair gel.

JESS: What?

LUKE comes behind the counter.

LUKE: Lorelai, that dog is scaring the customers.

LORELAI: No, he's just scaring Jess.

JESS: I'm not scared of a dog.

PAUL ANKA barks. JESS backs away. RORY giggles. She tries to hide her giggling with her coffee cup.

JESS: Oh you think this is funny.

RORY: (trying not to laugh) It's just a dog, Jess. Didn't you say you had a lot of dogs where you were living in California?

JESS: Yeah, but that dog is...(backing away) very furry.

LORELAI and RORY look at each other and burst into laughter. PAUL ANKA sticks out his tongue happily.

JESS: (looking offended) Bye.

JESS turns to go upstairs.

RORY: Wait!

JESS turns around.

RORY: What about that book you wanted to show me?

JESS: (looks puzzled)...Book?

RORY: (smiling) You know. That book.

JESS: (nods) Oh. THAT book.

RORY: Yeah, that one. If you're not busy now, maybe...

JESS: Yeah, I can show you now. It's upstairs.

RORY: Okay.

JESS goes upstairs.

RORY: (to LORELAI and LUKE) I'm gonna go see some book that Jess has...upstairs...

She smiles nervously and quickly gets up and follows JESS up the stairs.

LORELAI: (to LUKE) Rory and Jess, the later years.

LUKE: I don't speak bookworm. Read a book wouldn't be another way of saying mess up my sheets, would it?

LORELAI: Rory says they're just kissing.

LUKE: And you believe that?

LORELAI: Why wouldn't I?

LUKE: They're twenty-one.

LORELAI: She has a boyfriend.

LUKE: Don't remind me.

LORELAI: Well, he hasn't been by the house lately, so I think that's a good sign.

LUKE: So you think there's a chance Rory and Jess will...you know...really be back together?

LORELAI: I couldn't say.

LUKE: That'd be nice. I think he deserves another chance. He's changed a lot, you know.

LORELAI: (unconvinced) That's what I hear.

She picks up Rory's copy of Literati that she left on the counter.

LORELAI: You read this yet?

LUKE: (cleaning the counter) Jess's book? I skimmed through it. It was kinda graphic, I couldn't really read all that stuff about Rory. But I got the gist of it. How about you?

LORELAI: Still yet to make it through the first page. Rory gave me a copy...think I should read it?

LUKE: I think you should. It's not as bad as you might think it would be...and you have to put it all in perspective. I mean, he was a hormone crazed teenager.

LORELAI: So, naturally, he wanted to have sex with my daughter.

LUKE: (defensively) But he didn't.

LORELAI: I know.

LUKE: Not then, anyway.

LORELAI: Stop there. You almost convinced me to read it.

LUKE smiles.

LUKE: Shouldn't you be getting to work?

LORELAI: Yeah. Kiss before I go.

LORELAI and LUKE kiss. She grabs her coffee cup and PAUL ANKA.

LORELAI: (to PAUL ANKA) Come on furry monster. Now I know how to keep Jess away. Where were you when my daughter was in high school?

LORELAI and PAUL ANKA leave the diner.

FADE OUT.

OPENING CREDITS