Here's the next chapter! Hope you all enjoy, I'm sorta running out of ideas...I'm coming across writer's block.

Christmas flew by this year for Jess and Rory. They seemed so overwhelmed with everything and Rory would be going on maternity leave in a couple of months. She had put extra effort into her work to prove that even though she is pregnant, she can still write some juicy articles.

Jess had been writing a lot lately. He had a bad case of writers block before Christmas, but that didn't last long. He had told the small magazine company he was working for that he would be quitting soon. It was just an extra job to help make more money. Luke offered Jess a job, again, and he gladly accepted it.

Rory just needed a few more papers to write and some projects to turn in and she could graduate. She would be graduating with everyone else, but she wouldn't be at the school until then.

"Hey Ror, how's your paper coming along? Do you need help?" Jess offered while watching her write.

"No, I have it down. Don't worry about me. But I may need some help with the project and finding some books." Rory admitted. Jess took a seat next to her and pulled out a book.

"How's your writing coming along?" Rory asked Jess, putting down her pencil.

Jess sighed and ran his fingers through his hair. "It's actually coming along great, I just don't know if it will be done in time."

Rory smiled softly and leaned against him. "You'll get out of it. Look at me, who would have thought I would have managed to finish all of my classes early enough that way I won't have to be constantly going back and forth to school during my last months of pregnancy. If I can accomplish something like this, you can finish your book in time."

Jess scoffed. "But you're a Gilmore."

"Ah, not anymore. I'm a Mariano now." Rory smirked and winked at him.

Jess laughed, "I guess you're right."

Rory smiled at him, but then frowned. Jess looked at her curiously.

"What?"

"I, uh, your, your dad called yesterday." Rory whispered.

"He what?!" Jess stood up and started to pace.

"He called yesterday. I sent him some pictures of the baby and left our number. I thought he should know." Rory closed her eyes and waited for Jess's major flip out.

"Why would you do that? At least you could have told me!" Jess yelled.

"I didn't tell you because I knew you wouldn't let me send them to him." Rory whimpered.

Jess began pacing again, trying to calm himself down. "Exactly. You have no right sending anything to my dad!"

"He's my dad now too!" Rory stood up angrily. "When I married you, he became my dad too. I thought he had a right to know that he was going to become a grandpa!" She grabbed her keys and slammed the door.

"Rory!" Jess sighed and slumped down on the couch.

Rory ran out of the diner crying. Luke and Lorelai saw her and looked at each other.

"What…" Luke asked as soon as Jess ran down. "Jess what did you do!?"

"Not now Luke!" Jess yelled over his shoulder.

"If he did anything to hurt her, I swear I will beat that kid." Luke angrily told Lorelai.

"No, I will…and it will be painful. But I'm sure that it's just a fight. Let them settle it."

"Yeah yeah."

- - -

"Rory! Rory where are you!?" Jess ran across town looking for her. He stopped when he saw Dean talking to her. He thought about just turning around and going back to the apartment angrily, but decided they better settle this now.

"Rory." Jess softly called walking to her.

"What do you want punk? You made her cry, that says enough." Dean said defensively.

"Dean." Rory firmly replied.

"No, that jerk made you cry, he doesn't deserve to talk to you." Dean began raising his voice.

Rory got angry and pushed him. " He's my husband Dean, we have arguments, we can fix them. Stay out of our business. I was upset, but we're going to talk this over. Go home Dena. I'm sure Lindsay is wondering where you are." She turned and walked away.

Jess sighed and walked to her. "Rory. I-I didn't mean that. I was just surprised that's all. I never expected him to care about me becoming a father."

"Jess, I did it because I wanted him to be a part of our lives, I wanted him to be a part of your life."

"He doesn't want to be a part of my life. He never has, and when I did go to live with him, it was just awkward for both of us."

"Jess, this is different, you're not going to live with him. He's just going to know his grandkids." Rory smiled and took his hand.

"What if I'm not a good dad. I mean, look at me. I lose my temper and I didn't have the best influence from my parents." Jess looked down, ashamed.

"But you aren't them, and losing your temper is normal. You'll just have to work on that." Rory grinned trying to cheer him up.

"I guess so."

"You're not your dad Jess. Look at me. You're not him. You won't ever be, and I'm not Liz. Our kids will be fine."

"Yeah, you're definitely no Liz. Thankfully." Jess chuckled. "So what did my dad say?"

"Not much. Just congratulations and that he wants to talk to you." Rory looked down trying to hide something.

"Rory. You're not telling me something. Tell me." Jess pulled her chin up gently.

Rory sighed and looked at him. "He said he is coming to visit next week."

"What!?" Jess got angry but instantly calmed down seeing the look on Rory's face.

"He wants to visit us." Rory whispered.

"Great." Jess mumbled exasperated. "Just what I need."

"Jess. Just try not to think about it. I'll handle everything if you want."

"Nah, he's my dad. I'll handle it."

"Jess, he's my dad too remember? I'll help. Don't stress yourself over this." Rory soothed him.

"You are the one who doesn't need stress. You already have school, work, and the baby to worry about. So don't worry about it." Jess absentmindedly responded.

"I'm almost done with school, I'm going to start working from home now, and the baby isn't due for a few more months." Rory tried reasoning with him.

"Fine. But that means I will help you with your papers and projects, that way you finish before he gets here…" Jess compromised. "…if he gets here." He mumbled when Rory smiled and agreed with him.

"Ok. Well I guess we should get started then. We have a lot of writing to do." She grinned and grabbed his hand.

- - -

Jess was starting to panic. His dad would be arriving the next day and he was a mess. He hadn't written anything all week and every time Rory would talk to him, he would always be out of it.

"Mom. Jess is really torn up about this. He's stressed and he is so out of it. It's making me feel stressed and nervous." Rory sighed and placed her hand on her stomach.

"No stress hon. It's not good for the babies. I'll have Luke talk to him if you want." Lorelai offered.

"I'm not sure if that will do anything, but sure. Give it a try." Rory stood up with difficulty and walked to the door. "I'll let you know how it goes. Bye mom."

"See ya sweets." Lorelai grabbed the phone and called Luke.

"Hello?"

"Luke! I need you to do me a favor." Lorelai answered sweetly.

"What?" Luke sighed.

"Rory needs you to talk to Jess. He's freaking out about his dad coming."

"That's if he comes at all." Luke mumbled.

"Huh?"

"I'll do it. I gotta go, the Diner is getting busy. I'll see you tonight."

"Dirty." Lorelai teased.

"Bye Lorelai."

"Bye Luke."

- - -

Rory was taking a walk around town. She needed air and she was tired of sitting around all day doing work and projects for school. Dean saw her walking around and decided to talk to her.

"Hey Rory."

"Dean, hi." Rory nervously greeted him, pulling her jacket tighter and looking down at her shoes.

"Wow, um I guess a congratulations is in order. I know it's been a while since you found out, but I haven't had the chance to talk to you."

"Oh, uh thanks. We're excited, surprised that we're having twins, but excited." Rory smiled brightly and rested her hands on her stomach.

Dean looked down and back up at Rory. "So you and Jess doing ok?"

"We're doing great." Rory was beginning to feel uncomfortable. She didn't think it was any of his business to be asking about her marriage.

"That's good."

"Rory!" Jess was out looking for her, he seemed nervous about something and was fiddling with his jacket.

"Over here!" Rory called grinning at him.

Jess walked towards her, but stopped when he saw Dean. "Oh, am I interrupting anything?"

"No, not at all." Rory reached out to him. He walked over to her cautiously and took her hand.

"Jess." Dean nodded and frowned.

"Dean." Jess replied with the same coldness.

"So Dean, how's Lindsay?" Rory tried to break the ice.

"She's great. We actually are expecting too." Dean smiled.

"Really? That's great. What are you having?"

"We actually just found out she's pregnant."

"Huh." Jess shifted feet.

"Jess." Rory whispered.

"Sorry. We need to go though." Jess mumbled.

"Why?" Rory looked at him questioning.

"Cuz someone just arrived." Jess hinted tilting his head towards the Diner.

"Huh, oh, OH!" Rory turned to Dean. "We have to go. Congratulations by the way. See ya."

Jess and Rory turned and walked towards the Diner hand in hand. "When did he get here?" Rory asked.

"About two hours ago. Luke has been talking to him." Jess was agitated.

"Don't worry. It'll be fine. I'll distract him. I mean who wouldn't I distract? Look at me, I'm a walking barn." Rory sighed.

"Hey, none of that." Jess gently comforted her. "You're beautiful. Now let's get in there and get ready for chaos."

"Thanks Jess."

They walked into the Diner and Jimmy turned around. "Jess! This must be the beautiful Rory."

"Hi. Nice to meet you." Rory shook his hand and smiled, looking at Jess.

"Dad." Jess greeted.

"Hey Jess. So wow, you're going to be a dad. Congratulations. Don't run away now." Jimmy attempted to give him advice.

Jess's jaw tightened and he tried to calm himself. Rory eyed Jess cautiously and looked at Luke for help.

"So uh, Jimmy…" Luke got cut off by Jess.

"I'm not going to run away! I'm not you. She's my wife, I love her, and I love my kids." Jess angrily replied and stomped upstairs.

"Jess! Jess wait!" Rory called running after him.

"Jimmy what was that?!" Luke confronted him.

"What? I was just giving him advice."

Luke crossed his arms and grunted. "Yeah, and telling him not to run away from his wife, kids, and home because he had done it before isn't going to offend him in any way."

"I, I didn't mean it that way."

"Well either you get out of here, or you make it right." Luke pointed to the door.

- - -

"Jess, I'm sorry for putting you through this. I shouldn't have called or contacted him. It's my fault this happened." Rory apologized and began to cry.

"It's not your fault Ror. It was bound to happen." Jess tried to calm down and sat next to Rory. "I don't blame you for anything."

"Ok. But you should at least talk to him. Settle things out or something."

"I don't think so." Jess replied just as there was a knock on the door.

"Come in." Rory called. Jimmy opened the door and walked in.

"Jess, I need to talk to you."

Jess sighed and rolled his eyes. "Alright. Shoot."

"I didn't mean anything by what I said. I wanted to give you advice. I'm not great at this dad stuff." Jimmy rubbed his hands together nervously. "I just want to be there for you and my grandkids."

"Alright. No one's stopping you." Jess crossed his arms and sighed.

"Thank you Jimmy. I'm really tired though, do you think you guys can pick this up tomorrow, or go downstairs?" Rory asked.

"We'll finish this later." Jimmy said.

"See ya." Rory called out. "Well that wasn't so bad now was it?"

"Kinda." Jess sighed and slumped onto the couch.

"I'm proud of you." Rory kissed Jess and sat down next to him.

"Yeah yeah." Jess smiled kissing Rory.

There you have it! Hope you enjoy! Please let me know what you thought of it. Like I said, I'm running out of ideas. Review please!