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A/N: Thanks again for rocking my socks off, gentle readers. Here's the epilogue, because what is life without a fluffy epilogue?
Epilogue
a few months later
"Jess! Rory! Oh good, you're here." Liz exclaimed, standing as the two stepped up on the porch.
"Hey, Liz." Jess said, letting his mother kiss his cheek. She then proceeded to hug Rory.
"When'd you get here?" Liz asked, walking back over to her chair and sitting down. She motioned for the two to do the same.
"A few hours ago." Jess said. Out of the corner of his eye, he could see Rory blushing. They'd taken a detour to her old bedroom before visiting his family.
"Luke and Lorelai just left. They're still fighting over wedding plans." Liz said.
Rory shook her head with a smile. "They're never going to agree. He needs to just accept that she's going to win."
"Hey, there's the big brother!" TJ exclaimed, walking out of the house and holding a baby in his arms.
"Hi TJ." Rory said as Jess stood to take his brother from TJ. She stood too and peered at the baby. "Hi, Gregory. He's getting so big."
"I know." Liz said proudly. "He's crawling so fast I can hardly keep up with him."
"And he loves the Etch-A-Sketch!" TJ exclaimed. "Just like his old man."
Jess suppressed a comment but couldn't resist rolling his eyes. "Hey, Greg." He said to the smiling baby in his arms. "Finish that Tolstoy I lent you yet?"
Liz laughed and said, "I tried reading it to him but I had trouble with it. Put him right to sleep though."
"Sure you didn't give him Hemingway?" Rory asked, poking Jess in the ribs. Jess made a face at her and leaned over to kiss the tip of her nose.
Liz smiled at the exchange and said, "How's Philadelphia, Rory?"
Rory turned to her with a smile. "Not bad. It's a big change but I got a job at a paper there. And it's nice to be with Jess."
"How about you, Reads? Settling into domestic life?" TJ asked, punching him on the arm.
Jess smirked and shrugged, sitting back down with his brother still in his arms. "It's not too bad." He leaned over as though he was whispering to the baby, "Her socks smell."
"Jess!" Rory exclaimed with a laugh.
Jess smirked at her and said, "You know they do. Don't pretend."
"How about the book?" Liz asked.
Jess nodded. "Not too bad. I'll bring you a copy next time I visit, it should be printed by then."
"Greg loves it when your ma reads The Subsect to him." TJ said, settling down in the chair next to his wife with a beer.
Rory smiled at Jess's uncomfortable look and put a hand on his shoulder. "He'll love the next one too." She said with certainty. "I know that I do."
"That's because you're sleeping with me." Jess said tactlessly.
"Jess!" Rory exclaimed, turning bright red. "Little ears!" She pointed to his brother.
"Oh don't pretend you're embarrassed." Jess said, smiling down at his brother before standing and handing him to Liz. He turned back to Rory and wrapped his arms around her waist before kissing her forehead. "I know you way too well for that."
End.