Author's note - I rewrote this chapter so it's more detailed and longer. Please read and review.

Previously on Mariano Returns –

As Alex walked in she bumped into a boy who was also walking in and looked a little older than her. "Sorry" they both said at the same time

"I keep bumping into people a lot today." Alex said, thinking aloud

"Hey are you new in town?" the brown haired boy wearing a red shirt, blue jeans, a backwards baseball cap and a flannel t-shirt tied around his waist asked.

"Yeah, my dad and I just got her I'm suppose to meet him inside."

"Oh sorry here." He said and let her pass she sat at the counter and he sat by her, with his mother on the other side of himself.

"Hey mom we have someone new in town." When Will said that Lorelai looked and saw a girl who looked around Will's age, she had dark brown hair pulled back into a pony tail with brown eyes. Wearing a purple AC/DC shirt and dark blue jeans.

"Hi I'm Lorelai" Lorelai said in a sweet voice to the girl.

"Hey I just met someone with the same name a few minutes ago." Alex said

"Rory? She is my older sister." Will said

"Cool she is nice, what's your name?" Alex said

"William but everyone calls me Will."

"Hi Will I'm Alexis but everyone calls me Alex." She said and smiled at the both of them, little did any of them know that Miss Patty, Babbette, Lane, Morey, Kirk and others were watching the whole thing.

"So what brings you to town Alex?" Lorelai asked

"Oh my dad and I came here from California. I don't understand completely why we left I mean my uncle Jimmy, aunt Sashsa and my cousin Lilly all lived there. But we have some family here to I never met them though. My dad ran away from here 10 years ago and never came back." Alex explained as if it was nothing big.

"Where's you mom?" Will asked, Alex looked down the said

"Don't know she left when I was three and I don't really remember her except that he name was Amanda I think." Lorelai felt sorry for this girl she just met and Will also looked sorry.

"I'm sorry I didn't mean too…" Will said but Alex cut him off

"It's ok" Alex said smiling a little to show she didn't mind.

"Ok, so who is your dad?" Will asked, while Lorelai went back to sipping her coffee.

"Oh that's easy my dad's name is Jess Mariano" Alex said and Lorelai spit her coffee out when she heard that. As if on cue Jess and Luke came out form behind the curtains. Taylor, Kirk, Babbette, Miss Patty, Morey, Lane, Caesar and other people were in there and had heard what the girl had said everything she said. Alex turned around and saw her father not realizing everyone else around her.

"Hi dad" Alex said to Jess

One Mariano wasn't enough?

Luke's Diner

Jess saw that everyone in the diner was looking at him and he thought, 'I am a dead man walking and I won't make it out of here alive that is all I know.' Then he saw the boy next to Alex and he thought, 'Oh god a Luke jr.'

Jess just walked over to his daughter and said, "Come Alex let's go we'll come back later." He looked at Luke who nodded and as they were leaving who nodded in agreement.

Alexis got off the stool and saw everyone looking at her and her father and she said, "Jeez take a picture why don't you it'll last longer." Jess just smirked and they left the diner thinking, 'She really does take after me.'

Outside

"Dad why were they all looking at you like that?" Alex asked her father as they got into their car.

"I make a lot of mistakes in this town and that is all they remember about me. We will go back later to the diner. Okay?"

"Ok," was all she said as they drove up the drive to the Dragonfly Inn.

Luke's Diner

Everyone in there was queit until Taylor said, "One Mariano wasn't enough now we have two?"

Everyone was talking about this and Luke finally yelled, "Ok either you order something and not talk about what happened or get the hell out of my diner." A lot of people left and Rory entered.

"When the hell did Jess have a kid?" Rory asked as she next to her mother and Will gave her a cup of coffee.

"I was about to ask Luke the same thing hun." Lorelai said, they both looked at Luke and he sighed then glanced around the diner no one was there he had sent Lane and Ceasar home and they were the only ones.

"Fine, you want the clip notes version or long?" Luke asked

"We have time." Rory said wanting to know why he was there.

"Ok here it goes he left here and went to California to live with his father Jimmy. Then he graduated high school and college. Met some girl named Amanda or something like that moved into together. Then had a daughter named Alex."

"Wait, they named their daughter Alex?" Lorelai asked with an eye brow raised about to feel even sorrier for the girl if she was given a guy's name.

"No its short for Alexis. When she was 3 her mother left not wanting to have anything to do with her and handed all legal rights over to Jess. He stayed in California, but now he is here with his 10 year-old-daughter. Not wanting to raise a kid in New York." Luke finished.

"Wow" was all Will said.

"I was thinking the same thing." Lorelai said and they all looked at Rory and she said,

"He has guts coming back her that's all I have to say and that I feel sorry for that kid having her mother not want her."

Dragonfly Inn

As Jess walked into the Inn and headed for the front desk Alex sat down on a couch in the lounge area and started to read. Sookie was working at the front desk and saw Jess.

"Can I have a room with two beds?" Jess asked not looking Sookie in the eye.

"Sure here you go room 12." Sookie said.

"Thanks, hey kiddo come on." Jess said and Sookie was shocked when she saw a little girl following Jess but was even more shocked when she said.

"Coming dad,"

Luke's Diner

Late that day Luke checked the clock and said, "They are going to be here soon so if I were you I would leave now if you don't want to see…" Luke trailed off.

"Yeah" Rory said, "I'm gonna head home I'll talk to you later mom?"

"Sure thing hun, Luke me and Will are gonna go home also ok?" Lorelai said "Sure" he said

"I don't want to go home I want to stay and help close up and other stuff. Plus I have a right to meet whoever these people are don't I dad?" Will said

"I… uh… it's up to your mom." Luke answered

"Can I stay mom? Please pretty please. I'll tell you everything tomorrow." Will said knowing the last part would make her say yes.

"Fine, love guys I will see you at home." After saying that Lorelai left.

Outside

Rory had just walked out of the diner and instead of going home she went to a place where she hadn't been to in a long time, the bridge.

Jess and Alex where walking toward the diner, Alex was now wearing a black sweater with a hood in the back and a zipper in the front. The back said 'It's not my fault I'm perfect' Jess hated it but Lilly had gotten it for her. He was wearing a leather jacket, not the same one he used to have but a newer one that fit him better. Although he still had that jacket packed away somewhere.

Alex said, "I met a really nice girl today."

"Really? What's her name?" Jess asked, but some how he could already tell he knew the answer.

"Rory something her brother was sitting next to me earlier." Alex answered as they got to Luke's.

"Huh, ok we are going to meet my uncle Luke." Jess said as he stopped outside the diner and bended down a little to be the same height as Alex.

"Ok what do I call him?" Alex asked

"I don't know let's just go inside and take from there ok?" Jess said, Alex nodding and walked into the diner and took a seat next to Will.

Luke's Diner

"Hey," was all Alex could say before Jess walked diner after her and said, "Hey, you busy right now?"

"Nope, Jess I want you to meet my son Will and Will this is your cousin Jess and his daughter Alexis." Luke said

"Hey Jess, I already know Alex we met this morning." Will said.

"Hey, Luke this is Alexis, Alex this is your uncle Luke." Jess said and smirked, Luke just gave in and was going to have get used to the name.

"Hey Alex you like Stars Hollow so far?" Luke said

"Hi uncle Luke, and I haven't seen a lot of it yet." Alex replied

"Okay how about you to go sit at that table over there and talk while us adults talk for a minute." Luke said

"Okay" both Will and Alex said then Will asked, "If he is my cousin is she also?"

"She's your 2nd cousin and you are hers." Luke answered

"Cool" Alex said, and Will nodded. They both sat down and Will started teaching her how to play bagel hockey minus the bagel.

Over at the other end of the diner at the counter Luke and Jess were talking.

"So are you staying at the Dragonfly?" Luke asked

"Yup, I don't know for how long I just have to fix a few mistakes I made here." Jess replied

"Rory?" Luke asked

"Yeah Rory, why did she move back from New York?"

"Because she missed this place too much."

"Was she hurt really bad when I left?" Jess asked looking down at the counter ashamed of himself for being so stupid. But yet if he hadn't of left he wouldn't have Alex.

"Yeah it took her while to get over it but I don't think she ever did completely." Luke said

"Dad can we go outside in the square and play tag or something? It's no fun playing bagel hockey without having a bagel." William asked

"Um…" Luke said and Jess nodded in agreement. "Sure go ahead but don't go anywhere else and be careful."

"Okay but dad its Stars Hollow." Will said as he and Alex walked outside.

"Hey Luke do you think you could watch Alex for be for a while right now I need to think for a while, half an hour tops." Jess asked.

"Sure no problem I might take her home with me though."

" Okay thanks were do you live?"

"the old twickhem house."

"Okay"

Outside

Jess walked outside and saw William chasing Alex he just smirked a little. Alex hadn't had a lot of friends back in California. Alex saw her dad and ran over too him.

"Do we have to go yet dad? I'm having fun." Alex said

"No I'm going to go get something and Luke will watch you ok? You might go back to his and you aunt Lorelai's place."

"Cool, is she the one you always said was a coffee addicted person?" Alex asked Jess nodded and started to walk off toward the bridge.

The Bridge

When Rory got there she sat down and started thinking about all they times she had spent with Jess and all of the pranks he had pulled on the town. Then she had thought about the day she found out he had left. She had always wondered if it was something she had done. She also had never really gotten over him completely. She thought she had loved Dean but realized she never had and had really loved Jess after they had started dating.
She also felt sorry for him kind of now. Thinking about him raising a kid on his own, finishing high school and going to college. Then she heard someone walking on the bridge she knew it was him and while not looking at him but just looking at the water she said, "I haven't been here in a long time you know?"

Author's Note – Sorry if it isn't as long as the first chapter or if it is short. Is it good? Or bad? Should I continue? Please R&R.