Thanks for all the nice reviews, here is the next chapter.
Chapter 7 Family
Rory stepped out of Jess's room and spotted a doctor.
"Excuse me, doctor" Rory said walking towards the doctor.
"Yes, can I help you miss?" the female doctor asked her nicely.
"Gilmore, Rory Gilmore. And yes in a way you could help me. The patient in room 1148, Jess Mariano, is awake." Rory told the doctor.
The female doctor nodded "thank you miss Gilmore, I'll go check on him now." The doctor said and left Rory to enter room 1148.
Rory look out the hallway and for the firs time since she got a phone call saying Logan was being airlifted here to Presbyterian hospital in New York, she felt like things were going to be ok now. Logan was, Jess was and now she knew she was too. She had ended a relationship that had changed her into someone she hardly recognized. She cared about Logan, but had she loved him. Thinking back to the brief kiss between her and Jess moments ago, to what had stirred deep within her when their lips had touched. Kissing Logan had felt nice but his kisses had never made her feel so…alive. Neither did Dean's kisses for that matter. Jess did something to her that no other guy she dated ever managed.
Shrugging off the thoughts she walked to wards the elevator.
Lorelai looked around the waiting room, it had been 5 minutes since Matt had told them Rory was now with Jess. He was now filling his friend Wallace in on the situation. She stood up and announced she was getting more coffee. Despite everything she was still having a hang over from Lane and Zach's engagement party. She was embarrassed about telling almost the whole town about her problems with Luke. But had pushed them aside because her daughter needed her. And then she was too occupied trying to figure out what was going on inside her daughters mind. Did she still love Jess? Or Logan? She hoped she knew the answer and it wasn't wishful thinking. Who would have ever thought she would support Jess. She would want her daughter to still be in love with that hoodlum…was it fair for her to still call him that. After all Rory had told her he's changed. She was like him too once and she changed. It took Rory to make that change happen. And in a way it took Rory for Jess to change as well. Maybe change wasn't the right word, a better word would be growing up. She was snapped out her thoughts by a familiar voice.
"Jess Mariano." Luke's voice said to the nurse at the reception desk.
"Luke" Lorelai called and was surprised to see April there with him. "April"
Luke looked at her "Lorelai" he said walking over to her, April following him waving slightly at her. "How is he?" Luke asked as he reached her.
"Not that good, he's out of surgery but slipped into a coma. The doctor said that if he's going to survive he's got to wake up soon." Lorelai filled him in.
"I have to see him" Luke told her "What room is he in?"
"1148, but Rory is with him now." Lorelai told him.
"Shouldn't she be with Logan." He asked.
"Matthew, a friend of Jess, tells me that she just broke up with him. Apparently he actually told her he wanted her to be basically a trophy-girlfriend." Lorelai informs him "I think that was the final drop and she dumped him and then asked Matthew if she could be with Jess for a while…." Lorelai paused before telling Luke "I think she's still in love with him…Jess I mean."
"Really? Huh." Luke said processing everything.
"They make a cute couple" April spoke for the first time since she got to Presbyterian hospital.
"Well he's an improvement from Logan and married Dean." Lorelai said.
"You're actually rooting for Jess?" Luke asked her surprised.
"I wouldn't go as far as rooting and if you tell anyone I swear I will have to kill you." She told him.
"Ah but without me, the wedding can't continue." Luke told her.
"Like it's continuing now" Lorelai muttered softly.
"What?" Luke asked having not heard her, April however seemed to have and said "She said that the wedding isn't continuing either way." Seeing the looks and Lorelai's and Luke's face she rolled her eyes and said "I'm going to find my aunt Liz." With that she walked off towards the waiting room.
"What do you mean the wedding not continuing?" Luke asked her.
"Let's not do this now, or here." Lorelai said aware they were in a hospital.
"No if we have a problem, I have to know about it." Luke told her.
"Fine, if you want to know so badly I don't think the wedding is ever going to happen because you postponed it and won't set a new date. You keep me out of your daughters life who is a part of your life now which means you are keeping me out of your life. You say you love me and want to get married but you won't even let me get to know April. She's going to be my stepdaughter. I understand that you want to get to know her, but we could get to know her together." Lorelai told him.
Luke was about to respond when "Mom?" Rory's voice sounded as she walked towards the two of them. "You are in a hospital." She told them "I know you two have issues to deal with but this is not the time or the pace." She said in a angry whisper glaring at both of them.
"You're right, I'm sorry Rory. How is Jess?" Luke asked her.
"I said that before" Lorelai said referring to this not being the time and place to discuss their problems.
Rory glanced at her mother then at Luke then smiled as she dropped that subject and said "he's awake. The doctor is checking on him now. But he's away and he seemed like him when I talked to him."
"Oh honey, that's great news." Lorelai told her hugging her daughter.
"I know" Rory said as she hugged her mother back tears of happiness forming in her eyes.
Then Lorelai's cell phone rang she smiled sheepishly as she pulled back from her daughter and looked at who was calling "my mother" she said and pointed towards the hospitals exit as she answered her phone.
Rory looked at her then at Luke "Come on, let's go inform the others.
"Where are you Lorelai, I have called your inn and you're not there, I have called the house and you're not there. I even called Luke's and you're not there." Emily Gilmore demanded to know.
"I'm at Presbyterian hospital in New York mom" Lorelai told her. "Rory got a phone call last night that Logan was being airlifted here. He got hurt doing some stupid stunt or something. When she got here she saw Jess being brought him. He was shot…it's a long story."
"Oh poor Mitchum and Sheila." Emily said.
"I don't think either of them is here. His sister Honor was, I think." Lorelai told her mother.
"Of course they were there, their son was hurt and brought into a hospital." Emily told her.
"When are you going to face mom that these people are not good people." Lorelai replied.
"I know that…" Emily started then sighed before continuing "but to not visit your own child when he is in the hospital."
"I know it is hard to grasp but people like that are out there, mom." Lorelai told her mother.
"I…guess, how is Logan doing?" Emily asked.
"Rory told me he's going to fine. Jess is too, I think. Rory just old me he'd woken up from his coma. Which is good because the doctors told us that if he wouldn't wake soon he might have brain damage or could still die. But Rory said he seemed ok when she spoke to him." Lorelai said to her.
"Why is Rory so concerned over that insolent hoodlum when she should be with her boyfriend?" Emily asked her.
"Well mom, I think she's still in love with that insolent hoodlum and I know she broke up with Logan not long ago because he told her he wanted her to be a trophy-girlfriend and she didn't want that." Lorelai told her mother knowing the outburst that was now coming she held her phone a little bit away from her ear.
"What? How did this happen! Lorelai how could you let this happen! How could she love that unmannered, poor hoodlum? How could she chose him over Logan? A fine, nice young man with good upbringing and a lot to look forwards too. This is your fault Lorelai, If you had married Christopher and not be engaged to Luke your daughter my follow your example and stayed with Logan." Emily ranted.
"Mom, this isn't my fault. I was too young to marry Chris then. I didn't want to get married. Later it just want the right timing for us. I love Luke mom." Lorelai told her then paused before continuing "Rory is her own person and as much as we are alike some times she makes her own choices. I can't make then for her and if I could I would have dumped Logan a long time ago." She took a deep breath before continuing "Logan cheated on Rory with his sisters bridesmaids. Apparently he and Rory had a fight and he thought they were broken up but she didn't. His sister, mom, his sister told Rory they were broken up. Then when they got back together she found out about all the girls he had been with during their time apart."
After some silence Emily asked "why didn't Rory break up with him then?"
"Because he had convinced her he could not have known they weren't broken up and therefore he was not to blame for cheating on her because he believed they were broken up" Lorelai told her then added "that Logan had been bad for her from day 1 mom. First with that casual dating, then helping her steal a boat, doing nothing when she quit Yale. I'm glad it's finally over. Am I glad she might still be in love with Jess, no. But Jess has been better for her then a relationship with a married man or Logan has. Rory tells me he's changed, I'd like to at least give him the benefit of the doubt that he has. If we interfere we might lose her."
"Alright, we'll do it your way for now. And I'm sorry I overreacted before. You know that I approve of you and Luke. You could do better but it's your choice." Emily told her.
"Thank you mom." Lorelai said sincerely.
"No problem Lorelai, now shall your father and I drop by the hospital some time or should we delay that until we know more about what exactly Rory and Jess are?" Emily asked her.
"I think it's best to wait. I'll call when I know more." Lorelai replied.
"Ok, Bye Lorelai."
"Bye mom" Lorelai said as she hung up and sighed. She then saw a familiar man walking inside the hospital. 'Where do I know him from' she wondered as she re-entered the hospital.
Liz, TJ, Rory, Chris, Luke, April, Matt and Wallace just came out of the waiting room when the guy walked in, followed by Lorelai.
"You!" Liz yelled "What are you doing here!" she spat angry.
"I called him." Luke told his sister.
"He doesn't deserve to be here." Liz told him, "get out Jimmy! Go buy some more diapers!"
Jimmy Mariano flinched at that but didn't move "I'm here to see my son" he told Liz.
"You son, ha that's a laugh." Liz told him "Name one time you were there for him when he needed you."
"When you and Luke kicked him out he came to California and lived with me. He needed me then." Jimmy said.
"What he needed was a place to crash." Luke said to him, he may have called Jimmy but he still didn't like him. But the man did deserve to know the wellbeing of his son.
"And I gave him that." Jimmy said to him.
"After pushing him away from me in Stars Hollow. Visiting him after I told you to stay away. He left because of you." Luke accused him.
"Stop it." Rory said to the bickering adults "Be quiet!" she then said loudly causing them to fall silent. "We are in a hospital. Restrain yourself. Jess left Stars Hollow Luke but he turned out fine. And we helped him do that. What happened between Jess and Mr. Mariano isn't important now. Important now is to go to his room and ask the nice doctor there what Jess's status is." When everyone kept looking at her she said louder "move."
The adults ten seemed to walk quietly to the elevators, only glaring at each other now.
End chapter 7.What did you think of Emily, did I make her too understanding? And what do you think of the JJ(Luke/Lorelai) bit? And what about Jimmy's arrival? Review please.