Disclaimer: Yeah yeah, you know the drill. I own none of this. Even though all of us wish we did own it.

A/N: Hmm, what's this I smell? Maybe some drama?Yelling? Crying?This might get interesting.

Rory walked into Jess' apartment and looked around. She made a face.

"I know it's a mess, I just got this place a couple weeks ago though and I haven't unpacked yet." Jess said brushing past her as he walked into the small kitchen, "You want a tour? This is the kitchen, where you're standing is the living room and the little room that looks like a closet is the bedroom. And the even smaller room next to it is the washroom."

Rory shifted from foot to foot as Jess started to make some coffee. She started to walk towards the chair near her but nearly tripped over a box. "Whoops that could've been messy." She tried laughing but it sounded weak and fake. Jess just stared at her with his cold, blank eyes. After Rory made it to the chair Jess came over and sat on top of a box near her.

"So Rory, why are you here?"

"It's a funny story really... actually no it's not, but saying it is kind of lightens the mood don't you think?" She nervously started playing with the hem on her shirt, not daring to look at Jess.

"Why don't you stop beating around the bush and just tell me?"

"Oh and why don't you just tell me why you left Stars Hollow without saying goodbye? And why you randomly showed up at my dorm asking me to run away with you after you told me you loved me and ran off?"

Jess stood up angrily. "Listen. You're the one that showed up here, asking me to let you in. I didn't invite you here. You came here of your own free will. If you're going to try and finagle your way out of telling me you can leave. The door is right there, and I'm certain you can show youself out." By now the coffee was done and Jess stood up to go pour himself some. "Rory, coffee? Or will you be leaving?"

"I'm staying, but I don't think that I really should be drinking coffee. Jess, I might be pregnant."

Jess' grip tightened on the coffee pot as he slowly set it down. "Pregnant? What? How? Well, I know how, but with whom? When?"

Rory stood up and went over to where Jess was standing. Although he had set the coffee pot down, he was still holding onto it as if his life depended on it.

"I don't think I'm ready to tell you with whom yet. But it was about a week ago, a few days after you showed up." She put her hand on his arm but he jerked it away.

"I ask you to run away with me and then you go and sleep with some guy? Wait. I bet I know who it was, it was Dean wasn't it? I mean, you guys looked a lot friendly than you should've when he was at your dorm." Jess looked at Rory and when he saw the embarrassment on her face he knew he was right. He looked at her with disgust. "I'm going out. Don't expect me to be back anytime soon."

Jess grabbed his leather jacket and ran out the door, leaving Rory all alone in his apartment.

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Lorelai walked into Luke's diner humming the tune of some song that Michel had insisted on playing at work because he said "that it calmed him and with all the crazy people at the inn he would go crazy."

"Hey Luke, coffee. Chop chop." Sheyelled tohim, as she seated herself at the counter. "I'll have a burger please, with lots and lots of fries. But not the burnt crispy ones, I want the soggy, greasy, saltly ones. Is Rory here? She was supposed to meet me here at one."

"No she's not. Actually she asked me to give this to you." Luke handed her the note as he poured her coffee.

"Oooh! A secret message! I wonder what it says." Lorelai opened the note and read it. Her face dropped. "I have to go."

"But wait! What about your-" Luke started but Lorelai was already out the door racing towards her home. "-food."

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Jess returned to his apartment a few hours later to find Rory still there, asleep in the chair. He took a deep breath then shook her until she woke up.

"Jess?" She asked groggily, wiping her eyes.

"Here." He handed her a bag. "It's a pregnancy test. Actually its three pregnancy tests, I figured you could do a best two out of three thing."

"Uh...thanks." Rory didn't know what to say, she stood up and walked over to the washroom. "This should only take a few minutes."

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Lorelai rushed into the house. Rory's note said that she couldn't meet her at Luke's but she'd find out more when she got home. "Rory, honey? Are you here?"

She walked through the house and found another note for her in the kitchen.

Mom,

I'm sorry I just left like this, but I won't be gone long. I'm safe, but I'm not sure everything's okay. Please don't worry, I'll explain everything when I get home.

Love,

Rory.

Don't worry? How could she not worry? Rory was gone, with no explanation, no clue as to where she might've gone. How could she just leave without saying goodbye to her in person? How long would she be gone? Was she really coming back? Lorelai walked Rory's room her mind full of questions as she sat on Rory's bed and started to cry.

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Jess paced about his apartment for what seemed to him like hours. He wondered if Rory would ever come out of there. His mind was racing. Why would Rory sleep with Dean? Wasn't he married? Was she pregnant? Was she not pregnant?Why did Rory come here?Just as he was about to break down the door Rory came out.

He stood there, holding his breath, waiting for her to tell him the outcome.

"All three are...negative. Jess, I'm not pregnant." She was so excited she gave him a hug as he gave a sign of relief.

"So now that we know you're not pregnant, are you going to give me that explanation I've been waiting for?" He questioned as she released him from the hug.

She looked at her feet for a few seconds before gaining her courage and looking him squarely in the eyes. "Now as good a time as any."