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The whole family was having breakfast the next morning, at the diner. Nick had refused to eat his mom's cooking, and Lorelai's cooking wasn't much better. And Luke had already gone to work. So, they all headed to the beloved diner.
"God, I can just feel everyone gossiping about me and Nick everywhere." Rory huffed.
"Mommy, you said that gossip is bad. That the people who gossip go to hell." Nick smiled. And then Lorelai looked at Rory accusingly.
"Nicky, I did not say that." Rory blushed.
"Lying is bad too, mommy." Nick sighed.
"Where did you learn that word?"
"The crazy people on TV kept on saying it over and over again." Nick rolled his eyes. "Their uncivilized as you say. But, I felt like the circumstances were good enough for me to use the word, 'hell.'"
"Oh my god, Nick, please don't use that word." Rory stated.
"Also, when you came home one day, you said, 'Fuck that bastard.' I believe that it was about your bastard editor." Nick smiled.
"Nicky!" Rory exclaimed as she put her hand over Nick's mouth. "I don't ever want to hear you say those words ever again. Do you hear me? Those are bad, bad words and only bad people use them. Trust me when I say this."
"But you used them." Nick whined.
"Well, she quit." Lorelai interrupted.
"Mommy said that daddy quit smoking for her. Is that the same?" Nick asked.
"You told him about Jess?" Lorelai asked Rory.
"Yes, she did. When she was really drunk from coming home from a really big party that her boss threw, and I had to stay with yucky Aunt Paris." Nick made a funny face. "She was telling me how she missed him, and that he was a great guy. Mommy was crying a lot, and that made me sad."
"Umm, Nick, why don't you go see if Uncle Luke will get you some orange juice please." Rory interrupted him. Nick nodded and went behind the counter. Lorelai looked sadly at her daughter then turned her attention back to her coffee.
"You were crying over Jess?" Lorelai asked.
"Change the subject please." Rory sighed. Her mother just nodded and took another sip.
"Sweetie, maybe you still love…" The door opening interrupted Lorelai. She turned around and found Jess and a girl at the door. Rory seemed this was strange. She looked about six. "Hannah!" Lorelai exclaimed and ran the door. She swooped her up and kissed her sweetly on the cheek.
"Auntie Lorelai!" She exclaimed and squeezed her aunt. "Where's Uncle Luke?" Hannah asked. Lorelai pointed to Luke and she ran out to greet him.
"Jess!" Lorelai surprised her daughter by reaching out and hugging Jess tightly, and soon he was hugging her back.
'What is he doing here! And who is that girl? Oh, no, Is that his daughter? Oh my god, He has moved on. He is probably happily married with some skanky bitch. Ugh, why am I calling her names when I haven't even met her? Just please regain yourself, and think it over….' Rory thought as she watched Jess talk with her mom.
"Wow, Hannah looks huge." Lorelai commented, trying to cover up Rory with her back. 'This is going to be one hell of a day.' She thought to herself.
"Are you trying to cover up something behind you?" Jess asked.
"Uh, no. Why would you even think that I would be hiding anything from you? I mean, hello? Have I ever hid anything from you? No. So don't start with your accusations, mister. God, you are so paranoid. The world does not revolve around you." Lorelai rambled on. "Hey, I bet if you take a walk you will feel nice and freshly clean. Umm, yeah." Jess just shook his head and moved Lorelai out of the way to reveal Rory feeding some little kid. "Uh, sorry, umm, that's Rory's evil clone."
"Please take Hannah outside for a little while, and don't let her see Rory." Jess instructed Lorelai.
"What? Why?" Lorelai questioned.
"Please Lorelai." Jess pleaded. Lorelai sighed, then nodded and went to do what was asked of her. Rory still had her attention on the little boy, so he went over to her and sat next to her. She jumped when he tapped on her shoulder. "Umm, hi."
"Hi." Rory stuttered. "What are you doing here?" She asked straight out.
"Well aren't we subtle." Jess smirked. "Besides, shouldn't I be asking you that question, Miss. Dissapear from home while Lorelai cries her eyes out. Are you finally here for good, or are you just here to upset us a little more?"
"Ass." Rory whispered under her breathe. "I did not dissapear from home. Me and her were in a fight, you should know you only took advantige of me the night that I just broke up with my boyfriend."
"Me? Take advantige of you? Right." Jess retorted.
"Mommy, what are you talking about?" Nick interrupted.
"Umm, nothing, sweetie. Look, grandpa Luke is waiting for you over there, so why don't you…"
"Hi, how old are you?" Jess asked Nick. Trying not to scare him and interrupting Rory.
"I am three years old. How old are you?" Nick asked.
"Well, I am very old. You wouldn't want to know." Jess smiled. "Three years old, huh. Nice, very nice, Rory." He exclaimed looking at Rory.
"Luke, please take Nick, I need to speak to Jess for a little while." Rory exclaimed giving Nick to her step-father.
"Now I know that you aren't that selfish, Rory. How could you not have told me that I had a kid? I mean, ask anyone else in this goddamn town and you will see that they would agree with me on this. Which is pretty rare." Jess yelled as soon as they had reached the storage room.
"Why are you being so stubborn? Just listen to me for five seconds!" Rory screamed.
"There is no explenation or anything for this. And even if there is, I don't want to hear it! Cause that is my kid out there and I didn't know him. What the hell is that all about?"
"He knows about you, Jess. I tell him about you every night. Why are you reacting this way?"
"Umm, Rory, I have a right to know if I have a kid."
"Yeah, I know. But, I didn't want you to be tied down by a kid. I wanted you to have a great life without having to hear about me whine that my feet hurt or any of the other crap that I complained about. I didn't want you to be responsible for another person's needs."
"Too late."
"What do you mean?"
"Who do you think Hannah is? Yeah, my daughter. But, guess what? Her fucking mother left her as soon as she was born. I had to do that alone. If it had been with you, I would have had someone to help me. Or I would have been able to help you. But since you didn't tell me, I had to get Manny pregnant and watch her split." Jess sighed.
"So, now your blaming this all on me?" Rory exclaimed.
"Of course not." Jess stated. "But don't you get it? We were supposed to be together. And now I have to take care of Hannah." Rory felt tears threatining to fall. "Now don't get me wrong, I love Hannah. She is my everything. And I don't know where I would be without her. She helped me with the whole raising her thing. I don't know how that could be, but she made things easier."
"How old is she?"
"What?"
"How old is she?" Rory exclaimed. "Sorry, I didn't mean to yell. I'm just very, very upset. Just tell me, how old is she?"
"Hannah is five." Jess stated.
"Graceful."
"What?"
"Hannah, it means Graceful." Rory sighed. "When I was looking for baby names it appeared on the top 100 baby names."
"What's his name?"
"Who?"
"Don't play dumb. Umm, your… our son." Jess choked out.
"His name is Nicholas Lucas Mariano." Rory smiled.
"What does Nicholas mean?"
"The Victory Of The People."
"You know, I named Hannah after your mom… and I guess, you." Rory looked confused, and that made Jess smile. "Her name is… Hannah Lorelai Mariano."
"That sounds really bad." Rory laughed.
"I know, but she was the only thing that reminded me of you." Jess whispered. Rory smiled and looked deep into Jess' eyes and saw a touch of darkness and sadness. "Besides, Where did you get Lucas? From Luke, right?"
"Yeah, he was always like a father to me, and I wanted something to honor that." Rory nodded.
"One question, why did you have his last name be Mariano? Why not Gilmore?" Jess asked with curiousity.
"Because… you're his father. And I at least wanted him to have a little part of you. Even though he looks identically like you, your basically twins." Rory laughed. "Okay, well, umm, we should…"
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing. I'm fine." Rory stated. "Oh, well, I just remembered, we have to figure out what to tell them."
"Oh, about that. I need to tell you something." Jess sighed, Rory nodded and listened closely. "Umm, when Hannah turned two, she started asking about her mom… I hate Manny. Okay, sorry, that was really out of the blue. Anyways, she would ask me who was her mom and what did she look like. Things like that. Well, I told her that you were her mom." He mumbled.
"What?" Rory exclaimed.
"I showed her pictures of you every single night. And she loves you so much. I loved… love you so much. I wasn't ready to let you go. I still am not ready to let you go. But, that's beside the point, we can talk about that later. Umm, she really loves you and now that you're here and we're going to be staying in the same house. She'll recognize you from the pictures…"
"Wow, Jess, this is a lot of information to consume in such little time." Rory felt tears come down her cheeks, but she quickly wiped them away with her hand. "Umm, what pictures did you show her?"
"Umm, a bunch of High School pictures of when we were together." Jess whispered. He took out his wallet and took out about five pictures of them and placed them on Rory's hands. "There, look at them. Please."
Rory took a deep breathe and turned the pictures around. The first picture was of Rory and Jess kissing against some tree. She smiled at it, when at the bottom it said 'Yuck! I can't believe I took a picture of this. They are standing in the way of nature.' She recognized her mom's hand writing. Then, there was a few pictures that were of Rory and Jess reading to each other, on a bench in the middle of the night. The semi- last one was of Jess and Rory on the bridge. Rory had her head resting on Jess' lap as he played with her hair and watched the lake. Tears started rolling down her cheeks again. Soon, she reached the last one. It was one of Rory in her Chilton uniform sitting on the counter and smiling at the camera. On the bottom of the picture, there was Jess' hand writing. It said, 'My beautiful blue eyed beauty.'
"So many memories opened up again." She cried and sniffled. "Good memories." Rory whispered, then looked up at Jess.
"Please… don't cry." Jess stated in a very low tone. "I hate it when you cry. I just want to punch whomever made you cry." Rory smiled at this.
"But don't you get it, Jess? These are happy tears." Rory sighed with a smile. They both snapped out of it after like two minutes of looking at each other. "So, I am Hannah's mother."
"Umm, I guess."
"How are we going to deal with this, Jess? We both have our own responsibilities, and we don't have time to deal with two kids. I mean, I don't even know Hannah. How can I be her mom?"
"Look, Rory, you don't have to be. If you want I'll tell her the truth. I didn't mean to get you into this mess." Jess sighed.
"It's fine. What's done is done. You can't go back now." Rory stated. "Okay, we have a real situation here, this isn't anything that's going to be solved in one day."
"Of course."
"Hannah will see me today when we go out so… I guess we'll have to face the music there. But, Nick doesn't know what you look like. I mean, I have many pictures of you, it's just that I didn't have the heart to show them to him."
"But won't Nick be confused when she sees Hannah calling you mom or mommy or mamma. I don't really know what she'll call you. I don't have much expirience in that department."
"Okay, your drifting off the subject here, Jess."
"Right, sorry."
"We'll just have to tell them." Rory sighed.
"What kind of plan is that?"
"I don't know, but do you suggest anything better? Hmm? Any good ideas that your not sharing, mister?" Jess just rolled his eyes. They both heard a knock on the door.
"Are you guys making out or something, 'cause we need you out here. And unless your both half undressed, 'cause we don't want you out here is your half undressed." They heard Lorelai ramble on the other side of the door.
"Get to the point, Lorelai." They heard Luke interrupt.
"Okay, Jeez… Umm, your kids are waiting for you. And you know kids when they get restless. Specially you guys' kids. So, get your butts out here!" Lorelai finished and they rolled their eyes.
"Coming!" They both yelled out.
"Umm, we should go." Jess stated. "Ready to face the music?"
"Ready when you are, Dodger." Rory smiled.
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