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Jess's POV

" You know technically, he's still a Gilmore." Rory said, her voice only barely audible due to the crowd around us. We were on the subway on our way home from the Met. I actually hadn't had any intention to go in the first place, but I eventually gave in after being confronted with a very sad looking Rory.

" Huh?" was my answer. I didn´t know if I wanted to get into that on the subway. Yes, our relationship was better, even stable now, but still sometimes Rory would take everything I say the wrong way, resulting in a shouting match until one of us would give in and apologize, mainly her.

" I said that he was technically still a Gilmore." Rory said, louder this time. Some people around us started listening, I could tell. Well, I mean I would do the same thing if I was in their place.

" Technically yes." I stated cautiously, not elaborating my monosyllabic reply.

" Well?" Rory shifted in her seat to look at me. I felt her eyes on me, trying to get a reaction out of me. I intertwined my hands, positioning them in my lap. I sighed silently. I screwed up the first time when she had proposed to me and now I felt like I was doing it again. It wasn't supposed to be the woman to bring this up, right? I mean, I am the one wearing the pants in this relationship. My male pride had suffered a lot because of this. Who was I kidding? When it came to her, I wouldn´t let my male pride get involved. I wouldn´t screw up again.

" Well." I mumbled, turning around to look at her.

" How does October 8th sound to you?" I continued. You could practically see Rory trying to connect the dots in her head. Once she was finished, her face lit up, her lips forming a small, silent "oh"

" That's my birthday, Jess." I smirked.

" Really? I didn´t know that. Damnit I should remember stuff like that." My smirk started to get wider, the longer Rory looked at me in thought, in confusion and maybe even in pride.

" Sounds perfect to me." she exclaimed, making a couple of people turning their heads in anger.

" October 8th it is then." I whispered while getting closer to her. My face was only inches apart from hers; I could feel her breath, a mix of altoids and coffee. I leaned in further, brushing my nose against hers. I kept my eyes open so I could watch her. Her eyes in return were closed, her lips slightly parted, her cheeks flushed. She grabbed the back of my neck with such a force that I was surprised when her lips felt so soft against mine. The last thing I saw before I closed my eyes as well were tears streaming down her cheeks, but this time I knew they were happy tears and I caused them.

" God, guys, get a room," someone yelled from behind us, but we didn´t care. The old Rory would have jumped apart back then, but the new Rory just pulled me closer. She whispered something into my mouth, which I couldn't get.

" What?" I pulled back only a few inches, so she could repeat it. I brushed away a few tears off her cheek with my thumb and she looked down embarrassed.

I lifted her chin with my other hand and locked eyes with her. For a moment I was afraid of what she had to tell to me.

" I'm happy." she whispered in a low voice, her eyes light blue, mascara running down her face, the eye shadow she applied this morning gone. She had never been more beautiful to me; I like the new Rory.

We went back home from the station hand in hand, never breaking contact in fear it might all be dream. God, I had become sap.

As we reached the apartment, I told Rory to get into the car, I had to get our bags from upstairs.

When I returned, Rory was sitting on the driver's seat; I put the bags in the trunk and got in beside her.

" So? I take it, you'll be driving, huh?" I said as I fastened the seatbelt around me.

" You bet." was her reply and I knew instantly that she would be cursing herself later as soon as we would be stuck in the New York traffic.

" To Stars Hollow!" she sang off tune as she started the engine.

" To Stars Hollow, yeah." I sighed and she looked at me curiously.

" What? Come on, the town has grown on you." she smirked. I sighed again.

" God, Tate's gonna be so spoiled. I swear last time he spent a day with Lorelai he was acting weird for days." Rory laughed.

" Ah Jess, he's two months old, how could he be acting weird? And anyhow, you're talking about the great woman who gave birth to me and who raised me and look how I turned out." she flashed me with a smile that could have melt the north pole.

" That's what I'm worried about." she hit me lightly on the shoulder while turning around to focus on the street in front of her again.

" Hey, you love me!"

" I do, don´t I?" I sighed as Rory started to giggle.

" He looooves me. Uhu, you hear that? He looooves me." despite the fact that I was slightly annoyed I had to laugh as well.

" Now shut up and drive or I'm gonna make you pull over to switch seats."

When we crossed the " welcome to Stars Hollow- sign" I took a deep breath to calm my nerves. We had to tell them finally. We had to tell them that we set a wedding date while we had been somewhere between 5th and 8th on the subway. I wouldn´t be able to live that down.

We drove straight to the Gilmore house, because that's where Lorelai and Tate should be and somewhere in the back of my mind I was hoping that Luke would be there as well. I kinda missed him, although I would never admit it to anyone, not even Rory. He was indeed the only real father figure in my life. I went to see Jimmy for a couple of weeks when Rory and I had broken up after our senior year, but we didn´t click. At. All. He would always be tense around me, wouldn´t know what to say, and finally he told me that I had to go. I had bought the ticket back east the day before he asked me to leave.

When we reached the porch we could hear music coming from the house. Rory looked at me strangely.

" Classical music? What's wrong with her?" I just shrugged and pushed the door open.

" Honey, we're home!" I exclaimed sarcastically as we entered.

Lorelai came into the little hallway looking exhausted, a rag was thrown over her shoulder and we could see the marks our son left pretty clearly. It smelled like milk that had been expired weeks ago.

" You look good, Lorelai." I smirked as Rory hugged her mom.

" Jess, if I were you I would shut up. God, he's a piece of work. He's two months old, and he has already taken over the house ." Lorelai gave me one of her looks that meant, " say something and you die". I again shrugged my shoulders and went to the kitchen to look for Tate.

I could hear Lorelai´s and Rory's voices from the hallway.

" You ´re happy." Lorelai stated.

" I am happy." Rory's voice sounded strange.

" Did you do something dirty?"

" Nope, I'm happier." suddenly all hell broke loose. Lorelai suddenly started to scream, squeal actually and I heard her jump up and down.

" He proposed, didn´t he?" Rory took in a breath.

" Ahm, Mom? We're already engaged. You remember? I proposed to him? Before Tate was born?"

" Oh yeah. I remember." she continued and screamed in my direction.

" Way to go, bucko, let the girl do the proposing. Ah, theses kids nowadays." she sighed dramatically.

" Actually, we have some news" Rory appeared in the kitchen, dragging Lorelai behind her.

She looked around in the kitchen.

" Where's Luke?" she asked her mom.

" You wanna see something really cute. I mean not the Notebook-way of cute, but the Dirty Dancing- don´t put baby in the corner-kind of cute." I lost her when she mentioned something about a notebook. What the hell did she mean? Rory apparently got it.

" Oh I haven't seen the movie in ages:" she exclaimed. Hello, focus here.

" Which one? Dirty Dancing? You've had nightmares about Patrick's naked chest for days when you watched it for the first time." Lorelai chuckled. Rory's face fell.

" Yeah, you're right. I tried to erase that vision from my mind, thanks to you, it´s back!" she wrinkled her nose.

" I'm sorry, I don´t want to interrupt this nice mother- daughter thing going on here and I really don´t wanna know who Patrick is, but I was wondering… where the hell is Tate?" I looked at Lorelai accusingly.

" Oho, protective Dad is kicking in. I like it." Lorelai looked amused.

" I like it as well." Rory said and came over to me to give a passionate kiss on the lips.

Lorelai groaned and covered her eyes.

" Lord, get a room or something!" Rory chuckled.

" Where have I heard that before today?" Rory asked no one in particular.

That got Lorelai´s interest.

" Where?"

" Well, let's find Luke and I'll tell you." Lorelai looked at me.

" Why would she need to find Luke before telling me? That's your doing, Rory has told me everything before." she pointed an accusing finger at me, not really meaning it.

" Well, anyhow, I'll let it drop. For now anyway. Come on kids, you gotta see that!"

Lorelai led us to Rory's old bedroom and opened the door silently. The picture in front of me made my knees go week and I used Rory's shoulder for support. I only let me guard down for about a second but Rory caught me. She squeezed my hand tightly and smiled.

In front of us there was Luke lying on the bed on his back and Tate was curled up against him. One of Luke's arms was wrapped around Tate as if he wanted to protect him from all potential harm. My throat tightened and I felt like I was about to cry, but I wouldn´t do that. For maybe the first time in my life I felt like being part of a family, a real family, fights, tears and hurt feelings on the one side and happy family gatherings, love and safety on the other side. And for the first time in my life I didn´t want to fight this feeling. It felt … right. I felt Rory's other hand on my back and I took it and held it tightly.

Rory turned around to her mom who was watching dreamily the two " men" in front of her.

" Mom?" No response.

"Mom?" Rory whispered again, not wanting to wake up Tate and Luke.

"Yeah, hon?" Lorelai forced her gaze away from the sleeping bodies and focused on Rory.

Rory looked at me intensively and then back at her mom.

" We set a date, mom. October 8th." Lorelai was actually speechless, the odds where slim that it would happen ever again and if Rory was trying earlier not wake up the two guys, Lorelai took care of that when she started squealing in a high pitched voice and I swear it was a medical miracle that my eardrum stayed intact. Oh the joy of family.

So ? Like it, hate it ? I had fun writing this. Next chapter.: Jess goes ring shopping and some surprise visitors will come into the picture, stay tuned and tell me what you think. Thanks for reading.