Chapter 11- Speeches and freak-outs

In the meantime, at the Gilmore house Lorelai was sitting on the couch flipping through the channels on the TV and thinking about what had happened earlier. She heard someone knock at the door and got up and opened it.

"Hello."

Lorelai stood in shock as she saw the person standing on the other side of the threshold. After a few seconds she got out and slammed the door behind her.

"Well you have a lot of nerve to show up here like this!"

"I…" the words got stuck in the back of his throat and the young man found himself speechless.

"You what? What are you doing here, Jess?"

"I…" Again. He was never very talkative but this was getting ridiculous.

"Perfect. You don't want to talk then I'll talk. I don't know why you came here. I don't even know what you're doing back in this town we all know you hate in the first place but that's not the point of this conversation. I suppose you know by now that I know about you and my daughter and I think you're smart enough to guess that I'm not exactly thrilled with this match. I knew you were trouble since the first time I saw you and, boy, was I right! You've hurt her so many times before that you should really consider yourself lucky that pieces of your lifeless body aren't scattered all over Connecticut. I don't know why is she even speaking to you after all the stunts that you pulled, let alone why she is trying once again to have a relationship with you. I mean how long is it going to take you this time to bolt? One month? Two?"

"Lorelai, I…"

"I'm not done yet!" she cut him off before he had a chance to finish his sentence. "I know you been given the "You hurt her-I break your legs" speech before but obviously you weren't paying attention. She seems to want to do this, God knows why! I couldn't stop her when she was seventeen and I definitely can't stop her now when she's almost twenty-one. But I swear that if you hurt her one more time I will come after you and breaking your legs will be the least painful thing that I do! Now please enlighten me as to why you came here!"

xxxxx

Meanwhile, at the diner Rory just finished filling Lane in on the events of the previous days.

"Wow."

"Yeah…"

"So are you happy? I mean you look happy and all but…"

"Yes, Lane, I'm really happy. He's so sweet and amazing, I mean he even watched Pippy with me."

"I'm still finding that hard to believe."

"You should have seen his face. I'm half surprised he didn't jump out the window before the movie was over."

"And you two talked about things?"

"What things?"

"How are you going to make this work."

"No. I've been so…ugh…happy that it didn't even cross my mind until now. He lives all the way in Philly and even though that's a lot closer then California it's still three hours away. Why didn't I think of this before? What if he doesn't want a relationship?"

"Rory, you're freaking out. From what you've told me I think he really wants this. He even looked happy when he came here earlier, which is very unnatural and probably the first sign of the Apocalypse but he really did. And he'd be an idiot to let you go again. Now go find him and talk to him before you freak out even more."

"You sure?"

"Yes, I'm sure." She got up and pulled a reluctant Rory along with her. "Drop by tomorrow to tell me how it went, ok?"

"Yeah. Thank, Lane."

"Anytime. Now go!" she pushed her friend out the door.

xxxxx

"Now please enlighten me as to why you came here!"

"I came to apologize but it's pretty obvious that you don't care so I'm leaving."

For the second time in the last half hour Lorelai was in shock. He turned around to leave but stopped when he heard her voice.

"You came to what?"

"I came to say I'm sorry. I was stupid. Everybody fucks up once in a while, I just did more than others. I never meant to hurt Rory but I did and I'll never forgive myself for that. She didn't deserve any of the shit that I've put her through."

"You got that right."

"Even if it's hard for you to believe this I really love her. And I am not leaving again. You said it yourself she wants to be with me, and even I don't understand why but she does and I am going to try to make her as happy as I can because she deserves that. I don't want her to fight with you because of me so here I am. I'm sorry. I don't know what else to say."

"Tell me you're not going to hurt her again."

"I won't."

"Because if you do…"

"I won't."

"Ok. Tell her to come home when you see her, will you?"

"I will. Goodbye, Lorelai."

"Bye, Jess." She opened the door and entered her house.

Jess turned around and started walking rapidly towards the diner, when he saw Rory, who was standing in the town square looking at her cell phone. He hurried up his steps until he got close to her and cupped her face in his hands, lifting her head gently.

"Hey, I was trying to…"

He didn't let her finish the sentence. He crushed his lips on hers and lowered one of his hands to her waist pulling her closer to him.

Every emotion melted in that kiss: the anger, the frustration, the regrets, the longing he had gathered in the past years, the love…

"I am sorry…"

A/N: Here it is, the next chapter. Not the best but I like it. I guess my little cliffy wasn't that bad because everyone seems to have guessed that it was Jess at the door. I'm not going to make him and Lorelai best friends or stuff like that but I think they needed this talk. So tell me what you think, ok? I need a little criticism because my best friend and sort-of beta is out of town so I didn't run it past her before adding it. Thank you for all your reviews and I hope you like this. By the way, FanFiction seems to hate me a little lately so if you don't get a reply to your review please tell me.