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A/N: Here it is! Chapter 8! YAY! I know I've taken forever to get this baby out but I've been crazy busy. Since my last update I've gotten a job, started normal band, and today I just got back from BAND CAMP! (That's right kiddies...no American Pie moments I'd think that kill with a saxophone! I actually finished this between pass off and dinner Thursday but I couldn't type it because I was stuck in a dirty dorm room with no computer, TV, or air conditioning in 90 degree weather...I hate band...I love trips though...ah Hawaii...sr. enough band rambling) I'm totally sry. that I couldn't update sooner but Jackson High Marching Band completely took over my life! I'll try really hard to update way sooner next time! Anyways thanks as always to my stellar beta Kckgirl! And to all the kick ass ppl that review! Reviews really do make my day!

DISCLAIMER Not mine...I wouldn't mind owning Milo though...

K-Marie-M I agree breaking Dean would be brilliant...now I just need to find a way to casually work killing him into the plot...look of deep thought

LilyLOVESwb Yes I suppose the whole English thing does make it doubtful we know each other. (lol) ...Ah well it was a nice theory...HALFBLOOD PRINCE KICKED ASS!

The Desert Fox My always faithful reviewer how sweet you are but I have to correct you...The Smiths did NOT have anything to do with Stacey's Mom. That lovely ear worm was done by Fountain of Wayne I believe (not a fan...but I'm pretty sure it was them.) Look up some of The Smith songs I mentioned in the last chapter and have your eyes opened to the greatness of The Smiths! Oh and As Good As It Gets is my favorite Jack Nicholson flick...I love him!

J Love, this is a Lit story, Lit is Rory/Jess pairing. For some JavaJunkie check out Muffin is Injured...all her stuff is the Luke/Lorelai pairing and she often as funny author notes. I hope you like my story even though it's all Jess and Rory!

Someone5 I can't believe someone else actually knows who The Smiths are! I was totally shocked I mostly get blank stares when I talk about them...not that I can actually see your face or anything lol. Anyways Easy Rider is one odd odd movie...Naked Toni Basil...I'll never Look at HEY MICKEY the same... Btw I totally love your stories and I was like overly excited to see you read my story! lol...sry I'm a dork!

Bored247 Well I hope in your wait you didn't get all Hulk like on the townspeople...anyways as you demanded here's more...

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Chapter 8 And Jill Came Tumbling After

'Home is where the heart is.' Rory thought sappily as she turned the corner to find her beaming Mother waiting for her to get off the plane.

"Mom!" She yelped and darted towards her.

"Offspring!" Lorelai mimicked and tackled Rory into a hug, "You're home! You're home! You're home!" She chanted excitedly.

"I know!"

"You can never leave mommy again! I mean it! Go ahead and try! I'll lock you in the basement!"

"We don't have a basement." Rory laughed.

"I'll make Luke build one!"

"I've missed you!" Rory laughed

"I missed you too kid," Lorelai smiled softly, "Now tell me everything! Especially any and all FBI secrets you discovered when you were trying to snoop around and to find out who really killed JFK."

"Did you break out the drugs while I was gone?"

"Funny. Spill. I want to know all about your trip!"

"Can't it wait?"

"No."

"Not until we get home or to Luke's or something?" Rory pleaded.

"NO! If we go to Luke's we won't be able to discuses Johnny's visit!"

"Johnny?"

"Yep Baby."

"Are you telling me you just compared Jess to Patrick Swayze?"

"Yes." Lorelai responded like it was completely common to think Jess was a sexy dance teacher.

"How."

"Comes off all bad but really he's good. He's just had a hard life."

"So every bad boy you can think of you will compare him to?"

"Yes."

"Ok. But who says he's gonna even be there?" Rory sighed giving up on trying to figure out her insane mother's logic.

"Oh, trust me. He'll be there." Lorelai stressed.

"What? Why?"

"House arrest." Lorelai said like it was the most common thing in the world.

"What!" Rory asked completely shocked.

"Yep, Luke was mad. I'm talking Bruce Banner mad!" Lorelai explained, "Jess can't go anywhere. All he can do is work to pay off the money he took to buy the plane tickets."

"I can't believe Luke would do that!"

"He was really worried. You should have seen him, Rory, it was scary."

"Jess was stupid."

"What's new about that?" Lorelai joked, and the girls made their way out of the airport.

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"Paris really went on a date?" Lorelai asked, surprised.

"Yep, she was so nervous." Rory smiled, " It was cute. Well, until she made me get in the closet."

"What?" Lorelai asked, bewildered.

"Long story."

"I'll accept that." Lorelai smiled as the girls strolled casually into the diner, "Maybe he'll melt the ice queen's heart!"

"Paris has a heart?" Rory laughed, and tried to casually look around the diner.

"Looking for someone?" Lorelai inquired.

"What? No. Maybe." Rory blushed.

"Rory, is something going on between you and Jess?" Lorelai asked suddenly. Rory froze.

"What? No! How silly." Rory blurted to try and cover up her frozen response. Suddenly she throw her head back in a full-on head laugh. The prickles, the blurts, and the head laugh, Lorelai would know.

"Just checking." Lorelai frowned, Rory was obviously lying. Glancing at her watch, Lorelai suddenly leaped up, "Oh no! Oh no! I've got to go! Meeting! I forgot! Shoot!"

"It's ok mom. I'll see you tonight. Movie night?"

"I'm so sorry babe! And of course!" With that Lorelai darted from the diner and Rory slowly made her way to the counter. It seemed pointless for her to have a table for just one person. Luke spotted her and grinned.

"Hi Rory."

"Hi Luke." Rory beamed.

"What can I get you?"

"Coffee and some welcome back pancakes!"

"I stopped serving breakfast two hours ago." Luke frowned.

"I know." Rory smiled. "That's why they're welcome back BLUEBERRY pancakes!"

"Just like your mother." He grumbled but moved to make her pancakes. Just then Jess made his way down the apartment steps. Today was his day off except he couldn't leave and had to come downstairs every twenty minutes to prove he was still there. Luke had him under complete house arrest since the second he got back from DC Jess didn't mind too much, without Rory around there was nothing too do anyway. No sooner had the thought left his mind than he noticed her sitting at the counter smirking at him.

"Of all the gin joints in all the land..." He smiled.

"Yours serves the best coffee. What can I say?" She smiled sweetly back at him.

"You're back." Jess stated.

"Nope I'm a hologram."

"Star Trek? Really Rory?"

"Live long and prosper." Rory quoted, causing Jess to chuckle. Jess leaned forward on the counter, leaning a tad too close for comfort but nothing that made the townsfolks gossip.

"So, tell me Captain, did you have a good trip?"

"Wasn't half bad Tennille." Rory teased

"Are you implying love will keep us together?" Jess smirked, causing Rory to blush furiously, but before Rory had a chance to respond Dean wandered into the diner."Rory!" Dean exclaimed excitedly until he saw who she was talking to, "Jess."

"Dean." he glared back.

"Hi Dean," Rory smiled guiltily, "Um.. Jess and I were just talking."

"Ah," he nodded, sitting next to her. He couldn't believe she'd come to talk to Jess over him.

"I'm waiting for my welcome back pancakes." She explained, sensing his hurt.

"Oh, Ok." Dean sighed, and right on cue Luke emerged from the kitchen carrying a delicious batch of blueberry pancakes.

"Welcome back," he smirked.

"YAY!" Rory exclaimed, "Thank you, Luke!

"Yeah, yeah, eat them before I take them back." Rory immediately dug in. It took her about five minutes to down them. Dean sat quietly shooting daggers at Jess by her side.

"All done." Rory beamed, she really loved those pancakes.

"That's good." Dean sighed, "Rory, lets get out of here."

"But I still have half a cup of coffee and I was thinking of ordering some chili fries." Rory babbled unaware of the serious look on Dean's face.

"I want to go. I want you to come with me. So can we leave?"

"Dean...I..." Rory stuttered, suddenly realizing how angry he was.

"Just let her eat, Bag Boy." Jess glared, topping off Rory's cup of coffee. Luke had put him to work the second he saw he was downstairs.

"Stay out of this, Diner Boy." Dean snarled.

"Oh I forgot I'm supposed to stay away from Rory. Am I too close?" Jess replied sarcastically.

"Shut up Jess."

"Did you really tell him that?" asked Rory, angrily looking at a cowering Dean.

"Well...Um...he's a bad influence." Dean stuttered and Jess smirked happily.

"I can't believe it. He told me you did but I couldn't believe you'd actually think you had the right to ban me from seeing people."

"Well if you didn't spend more time with him than you do with me, maybe I wouldn't have too!"

"Regardless of that exaggeration, you have no right to pick my friends!"

"A friend? Is that what you call him?" Dean responded hotly.

"What is that supposed to mean?" Rory gawked. 'He knows' she thought, panicked.

"You're always with him! He's the first one you see in the morning and the last one you talk to at night. You even came to see him before me! Damn it Rory. I'm your boyfriend. Remember?"

"I wanted pancakes! I came here for pancakes!" Rory responded defensively, "And for your information I'm very aware of who my boyfriend is!"

"Yeah pancakes and just enough time for him to tell you how naughty I was while you were gone!"

"What?" Rory asked bewildered, all she and Jess had talked about was Star Trek and Captain and Tennille.

"You said he told you I banned him from seeing you."

"Well...Um..." Rory panicked.

"Oh I told her when I visited her in Washington." Jess 'helped', he'd been watching the fight in joyful glee as he bussed tables.

"What?" Dean asked, outraged.

"He told me when he visited me in DC." Rory repeated calmly, waiting for him to blow up.

"He visited you in DC?" Dean yelled, the whole diner was watching now. "Did you ask him to?"

"No, you did." Jess smirked.

"Shut it Jess." Dean glared, leaping up and getting in his face, "That's bull and you know it."

"You challenged him Dean." Rory explained, "By banning him you pushed him over the edge." Rory felt like crying. She was Jill. Her Jacks went up the hill, bumped their heads and now she had to tumble after.

"And you welcomed him with open arms." Dean glared.

"Well, I didn't turn him away if that's what you mean."

"You never do Rory."

"What does that mean?"

"Do you have feelings for Jess?" Dean demanded.

"I...NO!" Rory blurted suddenly, "Never. Euww." Ouick thinking was never one of Rory's skills.

"As I thought." Dean sighed, crestfallen and left the diner.

"Great" Rory sighed.

"Euwww?" Jess asked suddenly.

"I couldn't think...I ...can we not do this right now."

"Fine. I quit." Jess glared, throwing his rag down and storming upstairs.

'Great, now they're both mad!' Rory thought sadly and made her way to follow Dean.

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"Oh my grumpy, flannel clad, coffee maker god. Please please give your humble servant..."

"My blessed beverage?" Luke cut off Lorelai as she sat down at the counter.

"DIRTY!" Lorelai squealed.

"Oh Geez. No coffee."

"What! I meant clean! Oh so very non-dirty!"

"No coffee." Luke grunted.

"I'm talking Mr.Clean clean. Shiny bald head and all!"

"Decaf?" Luke offered.

"SINNER!" Lorelai screamed in mock horror.

"No coffee ever."

"But I..." She began but was cut off by her cell phone ringing again, "damn it."

"Who's been calling you?" Luke asked, concerned.

"...Chris." Lorelai replied hesitantly.

"Why?" Luke asked, genuinely surprised.

"He wants to talk. We almost got back together at Sookie's wedding." Lorelai explained, suddenly sad.

"Oh." Luke respond, crestfallen, "What happened?"

"He found out his ex is pregnant."

"Wow."

"Yeah..." Lorelai sighed and looked away from Luke, as if on cue her cell phone rang again.

"Is it him?" Luke asked.

"Yeah."

"Give me the phone."

"What!" Lorelai asked, completely thrown by the request.

"Just give me the phone Lorelai." Luke grunted demandingly.

"Fine." Lorelai sighed, handing him the phone.

"Lorelai!" Chris's voice rang over the phone the second Luke answered it.

"No."

"What? Who is this?"

"Who is this?"

"Chris Hayden. Now tell me why are you answering Lorelai Gilmore's phone?"

"Tell me why you keep calling my girlfriend?"

"Your what?" Chris and Lorelai said at the same time. Luke sent a be quiet glare at Lorelai.

"Lorelai is my girlfriend. Now tell me why you keep calling her?"

"I'm the father of her child! I'll call her if I want to!" Chris growled angrily.

"Not if she doesn't want to talk to you." Luke grunted back.

"And who are you to decide that?"

" I thought her dodging all your calls was hint enough but since it's not...I thought threatening you would work better."

"Excuse me?" Chris responded, outraged.

"Stop calling Lorelai or I'll stop you."

"Who the hell do you think you are?"

"Someone who's around," and with that Luke hung up the phone. Chris didn't call back.

"Thanks Honey." Lorelai smirked.

"Anytime Darling." he smiled, "Coffee?" he asked filling her mug.

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Rory had searched everywhere for Dean but no matter how hard she hunted she could not find him. Giving up hope she began the defeated walk home. She'd been home less than 24 hours and she'd still managed to wreck everything. Things seemed so simple in DC. She wanted Jess. She should be with Jess. Unfortunately, she forgot the key factor of Dean. She couldn't hurt him. She loved him if only like a friend. Everything was falling apart. She reached her house and stopped dead. An irate Jess stood pacing on her porch.

"Jess?" she questioned as she made her way towards him.

"Pick," he demanded turning towards her.

"What?" Rory asked shocked.

"Pick," Jess repeated, starring into her eyes.

"What?" she asked softly, turning away from him.

"Me or Dean?" he snarled, turning her to face him.

"Jess...I can't." Rory sighed looking down.

"Bullshit Rory! Pick!" Jess nearly pleaded.

"I thought you understood!"

"Understood what, Rory?"
"That, That," Rory stumbled, for an answer.

"That you're just too damn nice to hurt people and I have to wait for you, for US," he glared, hurt evident in his voice.

"Yes," she responded meekly.

"Well I'm sorry Rory." he sighed and moved away from her, "I'm sick of waiting." turning away, Jess slowly made his way back to the diner.

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A/N: Now I now you're all cursing my name for this sad little ending, So burst into an off tune version of Tell Her About It ...I mean me tell me about it! Review! Review! REVIEW! Oh, and bonus points for anyone can tell me what show the prickles, the blurts, and the head laugh is from! hint its a BBC show REVIEW!