A/N: I have no idea how I'm still able to write this, I tend to get bored with it… ok so I got enough reviews, so I'm going to continue (obviously) for how long? No idea. And there WILL be some Rory/Jess, okay? Breath people, breath.

Dear thirdlittlepig, a sophisticated person would ignore your comment, or give it a sophisticated response, and a bitch would say skrew you, unfortunately, I'm a bitch, so skrew you. And thanks for reading.

12345678910-fall

How do you save someone?

Lorelai opened her mouth once more, then closed it, then opened it again, and when nothing came out, she looked behind her, turned back and asked, "What happened?"

Startlingly Luke's first instinct was to pull Jess closer to him, unknowingly hoisting the boy back to his feet.

"Lorelai….what-what are you-how did you get in?" Luke had yet to consciously realized what a compromising position he was in with Jess.

"There's a ladder…" Lorelai trailed off.

Her eyes had made there way to Jess, who looked like he had just been through the rinse cycle. Still being clutched by Luke he had let his arms fall to his side, and had turned his head away, it, in a way, looked as though Jess was trying to disappear into Luke. Jess looked at though he was a boy but sinking from the larger mans arms, not another person, but a part of another one.

"Luke what-what happened?" Lorelai took another step into the makeshift apartment, doing the opposite of what Luke did when he first saw Jess.

Luke looked down at the boy still hanging in his arms before releasing him, letting him stand on his own. Jess turned around, his eyes still covered, he refused to look at anyone.

"Liz died." Luke hoped Jess wouldn't flinch or shirk away, and he didn't, he didn't do anything, he just stood there.

Lorelai's eyes widened, and moistened over with tears, she never loved Jess, never cared about him, hell, she hadn't even liked him that much, but somehow, for some reason all she knew was, that this boy belonged in her arms.

This boy begged to be held and protected, all the world could see it, this one even the bed sheets knew, that was what they knew from the beginning.

"Oh, Jess, I'm so sorry." Lorelai took a step colder to the boy, placing her hand on his shoulder. He was so small.

Jess bent his head down farther; wanting with everything in him to pull away from her, and at the same time, melt into her.

"Yeah," Jess mumbled into his chest. "Me too"

"How did, how did she die?" Lorelai turned to Luke, her hand still on Jess.

Luke at that moment realized, he didn't even know. "I-I don't know…" Luke turned to Jess.

"She got hit by a car." Jess's voice still sounded alien. It didn't hold the feelings and condescendence that his voice typically held. It was monotone now.

"I gott'a go to the bathroom." With that Jess pulled away, from Lorelai and Luke, and shirked into the bathroom to hide.

Jess just wasn't ready for this, to be this weak. Every sound he made sounded half way between a laugh and a sob. Jess hated that.

Luke sighed and poured himself onto a chair at the table, lying his head in his hands. He had never felt so tired in his entire life.

"Luke, you all right?" Lorelai took the seat across from him.

"Yes, no, I don't know." Luke swung his head from side to side, as though tried to empty it out and start anew. "It's Jess, I don't know what to do with him, what am I supposed to do?"

It's astounding sometimes when we realized time and timed again what can break a man, a woman.

"I don't know Luke, I just don't know…"

"But you always know." The man sounded pathetic, begging and pleading.

"I guess all I can tell you is to be the adult, and let Jess be the kid." Lorelai did her best to put herself in the same situation, and this was the best solution that came to her mind.

Luke looked up at Lorelai, folding his hands under his chin, "All right."

Lorelai reached out and took hold of one of Luke's hands, entwining her fingers in his, and with her bet smile and most confident of voices said: "It's all going to be okay, I promise."

"Can you just stay here with me, for a while?" Luke asked, still pleading.

"Sure, as long as you need me to."

In the bathroom Jess had been listening to the whole thing, because the about a small house is, people are libel to forget that it is small, and you can hear anything in the house from any room if your trying to, and Jess was trying too.

At first he was angry, then he was sad, then he was…. okay. Jess didn't understand why, but for some reason, he just was. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad to have Lorelai around. She was the most motherly figure Jess had ever met in his life, not to him, but to Rory and sometimes Luke as well.

Deep in Jess's head, way in the back, in the part that you never tell anyone about, Jess found himself imagining what it would be like to have Lorelai as a pretend mom, and a small smile touched his face.

Maybe Lorelai was right; maybe everything was going to be okay.

----

Yeah…I got bored half way through this chapter and just ended it. I have no inspiration at the moment, so this isn't good. And Rory will be in this story, my god, calm down people.

REVIEW! They make me happy, and there is still the threat of before behind it.