Dedicated to Venni Venti. Thanks for giving me inspiration!
This one inspired by the song "Our Song" by Taylor Swift. Lyrics: http:// www. azlyrics. com/ lyrics/ taylorswift/ oursong.html (without the spaces).
Our Song
"Kitty's finally asleep." She sat on the counter with a thump. "She must've got it from you, 'cos I could always sleep through anything."
"She needs a better nickname than Kitty. What does that have to do with her name, anyways?" he grinned, stirring the contents of the pot in front of him.
"What would we use?" She asked, laying her head on his shoulder. "Lori sounds stupid, and Rory and Lorelai are taken…and for that other thing, you'd have to ask Mom."
"Er…I don't think I could follow Lorelai's thought process on this one."
"I think it's from when we were having a Buffy the Vampire Slayer marathon, and Tara and Willow got a cat named Miss Kitty Fantastico…and since Kitty's name is Lorelai Tara Gilmore-Mariano…She made the connection. Just be glad she doesn't call her Miss Kitty Fantastico…"
"Of course." He nodded sagely. He held up a spoon. "Taste this."
"Yum." She closed her eyes. "This is definitely an improvement from when we were seventeen."
"You mean, calling each other and talking quietly so Lorelai wouldn't hear from the next room…"
"And you sneaking out past Luke to come see me." She stuck her tongue out.
"Please." He said. "Luke wouldn't know what I was doing if I told him."
"And arguing about Ayn Rand versus Hemmingway…"
"Which, no competition, Hemmingway is better."
"No way! Ayn Rand has a completely better way of writing."
"Hemmingway—"
"—Is the cure for insomnia."
He grabbed his heart in mock pain. "Ouch, Rory. That hurt."
She shoved him. "Oh, go grow a pair."
He grabbed his arm in mock hurt. "Babe, will you marry me?"
She stopped in shock. He looked up at her, and found her still staring at him, biting her lip. "Really?" she whispered.
"Well, I haven't got a ring, but…yeah."
She catapulted off the counter into his arms. "Of course!" she squealed. "Oh, my God, I've gotta call Mom."
"Hopefully she doesn't kill me for taking away her mini-me."
She held the phone away from her mouth. "Don't be silly, since the whole Yale thing, Mom loves—Mom! Guess what?…Um, I think it was Al's Pancake World…Yah…Oh, Kitty's good…Nope, Jess asked me to marry him!…I know, pretty much my reaction too…Well…no, we don't have a…Yes, me and Dean did! It was Candyman…You're joking…there is no way in hell that our song is going to be by the Clash—"
"I wouldn't mind—" Jess interjected.
Rory waved him away. "No, I'm not pregnant again, as far as I know…are you?…Seriously?…Oh, thank God…Don't do that!…yes, of course I'm keeping Gilmore…" she wrinkled her nose. "I know…Rory Mariano?…No way. Yah, Love you too…Call you later."
She hung up, turning to Jess. "She says she'll tell Luke."
"So…coffee?" he questioned, holding up the coffee pot.
She smiled and kissed him. "You" she said, punctuating each word with a small kiss, "are the perfect man."
He grinned. "Way to stroke my ego, babe."
"No, it was perfect. I mean, if Logan," she rolled her eyes, "if we ever got to that stage, he probably would have proposed in front of a bunch of people, and it would have been really—" She stopped, watching as his face clouded over. "Something wrong?"
"Is this the way it's gonna be now?" he questioned angrily. "Let's get the ring Logan would have picked out. Let's get married in the church Dean would have liked." His face twisted. "Am I going to have to constantly compete with your ex-boyfriends?"
"Jess, no, I just meant—"
"Just meant what? That I was better than him? Well, yay. But the fact that you're comparing me to him is just…"
"No, sweetie, that's not what I meant. You are all I ever wanted, and they can't compete with that." She switched to a high, teasing voice. "Ooooh, Jess, you're so amazing." she saw the beginnings of a smile and knew she had won. "Ooooh, Jess, I wanna have your baby…Oh, too late." She stuck her tongue out at him. "I love you, Jess." She promised.
"Love you too." They heard the crying echoing through the apartment as Lorelai Tara Gilmore-Mariano, known to her family as Kitty, awoke.
They looked at each other and sighed, smiling. She kissed him quickly, before dashing away. "A parent's work is never done!" her voice echoed back to him.
He smiled, shaking his head, and returned to the pot in front of him, as he noticed it was burning.
"Oh, shit!" he cursed.
"Language!" his fiancée's voice floated back to him. "If I can hear you, so can she!"
Okay, short and sweet. This part of the dialogue:
"Is this the way it's gonna be now?" he questioned angrily. "Let's get the ring Logan would have picked out. Let's get married in the church Dean would have liked." His face twisted. "Am I going to have to constantly compete with your ex-boyfriends?"
Was inspired by the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Something Blue."
Anyways, we're almost at the end of THIS particular series of one-shots. I'll probably start a new one, called Jess and Rory's Infinite Playlist: Part Deux or something, that will have different songs that didn't fit into the universe that this series started going with. I didn't actually mean for it to go like that (with many sort of connected one-shots in one AU) but, to quote Bruce Almighty: "That's the way the cookie crumbles."
I'm not explaining it well, but if you have questions, leave them in a review, and I will get back to you!