AN: Hi everyone :) I'm so happy that you're enjoying this fanfic, I've had this idea in mind for a while and was never able to put my thoughts down. Please review to let me know that you like the story (or don't like it), it would be much appreciated :)


"Must have coffee" Rory said as the hospital cafeteria came in sight.

"You still haven't given that bad habit up?" Jess chuckled as they walked to the cafeteria.

"Oh shush, you're starting to sound like Luke. As speaking of which, he's dating my mom. A little weird if you ask me, but they're happy and that's all that matters right," Rory got a cup and poured coffee in it, black, just the way she liked it. "Do you want anything?" She said as she grabbed a danish and her coffee to go and pay.

Jess just shook his head. "I'm going to find us a table" He said, as Rory paid for her breakfast. She came and sat down across from him in the booth as she drank her coffee.

"I think the first thing we should do is talk about what we're going to say to Valentina. Are we going to say that you're her dad?" Rory asked softly.

"Well we wouldn't be lying if we told her I'm her dad. We should tell her, when we can see her. I told you I want to be apart of this life you created for her." Rory nodded.

"I think she'll be excited. She always asks about her daddy. I tell her he's traveling around the world." Rory giggled.

"So you haven't told me much about Valentina, and I think that I deserve to know., especially now that we're going to tell her who I am." Jess said, with a little attitude in his voice.

Rory nodded and put the coffee cup down on the table. "Well, she's almost four. I can't believe it honestly. She was born in this hospital, a little earlier than my due date, so she was smaller than most babies when she was born. But Jess, she's perfect. I make her listen to the music we listen to, well now she listens on her own and she dances around our living room. She went to preschool this year, she was so eager to learn it was amazing," Rory took another sip of coffee. "Really I-We got so lucky with her. I would like to have you in her life, if that's what you want." Rory looked straight into Jess' big brown eyes.

"You know I want that Ror, more than anything. I want to make up for everything I wasn't here for. My parents were shit and I don't want to be like that with Valentina. It's a beautiful name by the way."

She nodded. "Valentina Mariano. I don't know how much more Italian you could get with that name. I thought you would like it. Also, I got a little inspired from the name Valentine.."

"..from Romeo and Juliet" Jess finished and Rory smiled and looked down, eating a piece of her danish.

"What have you been up to? I don't see you for four years and you suddenly come back?" Rory asked.

"Well right now my publishing company is stationed in New Haven, in a few months it will be New York. I have a book in the process of being edited for the millionth time so hopefully it will be soon." Jess smiled, trying not to get cocky.

"That's great" Rory smiled. "I knew you were going to write someday."

He gave a little smirk. "Don't get all cute on me Gilmore, I have a reputation to uphold." Just then the doctor interrupted them. Rory threw away the rest of the danish and followed the doctor and Jess to Valentina's room.

"Good news is that she doesn't have a concussion, she just bruised herself. Definitely not the worst thing in the world." Doctor Banks explained to them. Rory was practically taking notes on everything the doctor said on her phone, while Jess was zoning out. He just wanted to see Valentina and make sure for himself that she was okay.

They got to the room and the doctor let them be alone. "Hey baby" Rory said softly as she saw her daughter, sucking on a lollipop.

"Mommy! The nice man gave me a lolli for being such a good girl!" Valentina's blue eyes lit up as she told her mom about the lollipop.

"That's great" Rory sat in the chair next to her bed.

"Honey, remember when I told you that you have a daddy? And that he loves you very much and he was traveling around the whole wide world," Valentina licked her lollipop and nodded her mom as she spoke. "well this is your daddy" She carefully took Jess's hand from behind her.

Valentina didn't really understand the situation completely, but she understood enough to know that Jess was the man she always asked about.

"You've been all over the world!" Valentina giggled. "Have you been to Paris? Mommy says it's pretty there."

"No, I'm sorry I've never been there. I've been to California though." Jess says as Valentina finishes her lollipop.

"Are you gonna stay daddy?" Valentina asked. Jess looked at her for a minute before answering. The reality was yes, he is someones daddy, and he wanted to make things right.

Rory saw him, staying in space so she answered for him. "Daddy lives in New Haven. But he's going to come and visit. Right Jess?" She looked at him, hoping that he'll say that he will come and visit.

"Of course. Mommy tells me that you like reading. What's your favorite book?" he said, sitting in the chair next to Rory.

"My favorite book to read is The Cat in the Hat. But I like when mommy reads me To Kill a Mockingbird." His daughter said.

"Starting her on the classics early I see, Ror." Jess looked over at Rory.

"Oh yes, because The Cat in the Hat is such a classic" she joked, as Valentina closed her eyes to take a nap.

A few minutes later, Lorelai and Luke came in. "What happe-" Lorelai couldn't finish, the sight of Jess there surprised her too much.

"Hi Jess," she said hesitantly. "Rory can I talk to you in the hall for a second?"

Rory sighed and got up, following her mother into the long hospital hallway.

"First of all, what the hell? Second of all, what the hell?" Lorelai said, drinking her second cup of coffee of the morning.

"Valentina got hurt this morning, so I took her here. I needed Jess' health information or else they wouldn't get Valentina a room. So I called him and ta-da he's here. I saw him last night, when I took Valentina for a walk. He knows about his daughter and she knows about him too. We're going to try and make things work, he's changed mom." Rory explained.

"I just don't you to get hurt." Her mom said.

"I won't. And Luke will kill Jess if he even thinks about doing anything bad. I can handle this mom. Wouldn't it be nice for me to have a complete family?

"Yes it would." Lorelai smiled and walked with Rory back into her granddaughter's room.

"I can't believe you're saying the Dodgers are better than the Yankees" Luke said, starting to get angry at Jess.

"Are we interrupting something here?" Lorelai asked and laughed.

"Well I'm in here,giving Jess the 'if you even think about hurting Rory or Valentina I'll kill you speech and he turns on the Dodgers game. And then he has the nerve to tell me that they're better than the Yankees."

"Because for the fifth time, they are better." Jess says, making the feeling of anger mutual between him and Luke.

"I told you so" Rory smiled at Lorelai over the comment Luke made about hurting Jess.

"If you don't mind guys, my daughter is trying to sleep and all you guys are doing is auguring about baseball." Rory looks at Luke and Jess, who was looking up the Dodgers' stats on his phone.

Jess looked up from his phone and looked at Luke, "Come on Luke, my daughter is trying to sleep here" He said, looking over at Rory when he was done scolding his uncle.