Rory pushed hard down on to her suitcase lid, trying with all her might to clasp it closed. She was about to resort to sitting on it when Jess called out from the bathroom.

"Did you pack your shampoo?" He called out, Rory slapped her forehead – of course she had to have forgotten something.

"Oh crap," she yelled, falling exhausted onto the bed next to her open suitcase.

"I didn't think so," said Jess as he walked out of the bathroom, her shampoo in hand. "I can pack it for you."

"Good, because there is absolutely no room in my suitcase," said Rory.

"Just bring a bigger suitcase..." muttered Jess as he tossed more things into his own large black one.

"But this one is my favourite! Its light purple and solid, this breed of suitcases are rare!" said Rory, running her hand over the silk lining.

"Fine, pack your rare breed of suitcase," replied Jess as he easily zipped his own up with ease. Rory turned away from him and continued to push down on her own. She stopped for a moment to look out the window, where the rain poured heavily against the window pain and onto the streets.

"Here, I'll close your suitcase, you go do your last minute girl things," said Jess, he had come up behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling her close to him and kissing down her neck.

"I knew you'd make yourself useful at some point," said Rory, with a laugh.

She walked away from the bed and grabbed her backpack on the way to the bathroom. She quickened her pace as her legs began to shake and her cheeks became hot. She ran into the bathroom and closed the door quietly behind her.

"Oh god," Rory breathed. "Panic attack!"

She dropped her bag and ran to the sink, turned the water onto full blast and breathed heavily as she looked up into the mirror. Her blue eyes stared back at her, looking as scared and unsure as she felt like inside. She bent down to her dropped bag and brought out her journal, she opened it and inside lay the letter and the photos her mother had left her, she took the photos out and pulled out the baby picture of Harry Potter and her.

She held it up in front of her and looked long and hard at the reflection in the mirror, glancing momentarily at the baby photo, not much had changed in her; her face was still baby doll round and porcelain white, her eyes still held their crystal blue gleam and her lips were still small and pink.

"Have you changed?" she asked the photo of her baby twin brother.

His eyes were an intense emerald green, the twinkled from a hard set face, his jaw was squarer then Rory's but their noses were the same short thin shape. They both had thick locks of dark brown hair, but Harry's looked blacker then Rory's.

She tried to imagine Harry and what he'd be like now, being the same age as she was... Rory suspected he'd be tall, their grandfather, Richard Gilmore, was tall and so was Sirius. He'd still have those dazzling green eyes, but what else? He'd probably be well built but not too muscled. The one thing she was certain of was that he was pale, just like she was. She traced around his face with her finger, a smile tugging at the edges of her mouth.

"I'll find you, I promise," she said to the photo before she put it back into her diary and tucked it back into her bag.

She stood up and pulled her backpack on, she stepped back and looked herself in the mirror, she wore a pale pink singlet on but had her grey Yale zip-up sweater on over it with some loose jeans and blue Chuck Taylor's. She had combed her hair back into ponytail and was now trying to stop her long bangs from blowing into her eyes.

If Lorelei had been right then she was looking down the barrel of hard times, just to find her brother and father that Rory never got to know. But Rory figured it was all worth it to have family, and with Jess by her side, well who could fail?

She turned the taps off and walked out of the Bathroom, Jess proudly lifted her light purple suitcase in the air, fully closed. He was wearing normal jeans and Dock Martins, his t-shirt sported a very large Johnny Cash photo and on top of that he wore a hooded zip up jumper covered by a denim jacket.

"Let's get put of here," Jess said as he began to pull Rory and his own suitcases to the front door.

"Jess, wait," called Rory, he obediently stopped and turned around; she ran up to him and wrapped her arms around his neck. "You know I love you, right?"

"There's not a day I don't think about it and then realise how lucky I am," said Jess. Good answer, Rory thought as he enclosed his lips around hers.

"Good, now don't you forget it," replied Rory as they separated.

She ran to the front door and picked up all the scarves and gloves, Jess followed, he had slung his shoulder bag over him and lugged both their suitcase forward. Rory wrapped her blue scarf around her neck, putting her gloves into her backpack.

"We need to stop in at Luke's to say goodbye," Jess began as Rory slipped his hat on, wrapping his scarf around his neck. "That's where the Taxi is picking us up."

"I suspected as much," said Rory.

"Do you have the tickets?" asked Jess, Rory reached into her back pack and waved the two first class tickets at him. As soon as her grandparents had heard that Rory was going to England ("I'm just taking some time off school, to come to grips with Mom's passing." She had lied), they insisted on buying two first class tickets.

"I still can't believe your grandparents paid for us to leave!" Jess said as Rory opened the door.

"They were just being nice, and they didn't like the idea of their angelic granddaughter sitting in economy!" said Rory, puffing up her chest and acting very important, it made Jess laugh.

"Because economy is just for low lives?" he asked.

"Totally, economy class is so last year, it's as old as spandex pants!" Rory replied, she grabbed both their umbrellas and shut the door behind them, quickly locking it behind.

"You know," Jess said, in a much more serious tone. "I just realised," he turned to her. "We're leaving Stars Hollow, We're leaving America! We're out lives for the slimmest chance that we could actually make it better."

Rory stood back at him, her face hard and stern. "If you want to back out, now's the time, Jess."

Jess laughed and gave her a quick peck on the cheek. "No, I'm not saying I want out, all I'm saying is it's exciting!"

Rory popped up her big umbrella and shaded herself and Jess from the pouring rain, they darted across the street. Rory glanced around and took one last look at a place she had called home for so long, basking in its small town peace.

"I bet my mom wanted to do this forever, get up and leave with me, to find Sirius and Harry." Rory muttered as they walked briskly down the sidewalk, avoiding the large deep puddles.

"Despite you mother's warnings, I'm certain she's proud you're brave enough to do what she was too scared to do herself," Jess said, Rory didn't comment back – but it gave her a lot to think about.

They finally reached the town's centre; her eye's swelled with tears as she looked into Dosey's market, and when she looked over to the Gazebo. She let out a small sob when she saw Taylor inside his ice creamery, dressed up in his weird red suit and rearranging the candy jars on his shelves. She sniffed back her tears in time to arrive looking magnificent at Luke's.

Jess rested the suitcases on one of the tables, it was still only 6am so no one was in Luke's, except for, of course Luke. He stood behind the bill counting twenty dollar bills; he looked up and smiled at the pair.

"Hey," he said as he put the money down and walked up to them, wrapping Rory in a hug and then Jess who looked slightly unnerved by Luke's affection. "So you're off?" he asked, his eyes looked as if they were going red and puffy, Rory didn't think she could contain herself if Luke started crying.

So, she decided to talk. "Yes, well here we are, suitcases and all," she began at warp speed. "We wanted to leave really early, no time to spare and all. We haven't actually told the town we're leaving, but I made a little letter, printed out like 50 copies, I'll give them to you before we go so you can hand them out, they've got names." She let out a quick nervous laugh. "But yeap, we're off to Merry Ol' England. I was annoying Jess all yesterday with my pseudo English accent – it sucks by the way so I won't do it right now."

Jess put his hand on her shoulder and rubbed it affectionately; Rory let out a long breath and flopped down onto a chair. Jess gave her a small half smile, the exact same smile spread across Luke's lips.

"I'm just nervous. Sorry for going on like that." said Rory.

"Hey, no problem, I get you," Luke said kindly. "Now you two sit down and I'll make you some coffee and a going away care package."

"Oh bless you," Rory said, grabbing hold of Luke's arm. He laughed and walked away. Jess sat down on the opposite side of Rory, looking over at her. "What she asked him.

"I'm so happy to be doing this with you," he said, he took hold of her right hand and kissed it. "Oh one more thing," he said still holding onto her hand, he reached into his pocket and brought out a little ring box. "With the extra plane money we had left over, I bought you this." She opened it with shaking hands and saw a silver band with a small red ruby diamond in it.

"Oh my god, this is so sweet," Rory muttered as she gazed down at it.

"It's a promise ring," Jess explained as he plucked it from the box and slipped it onto her right hand's ring finger. "I want this thing settled down, so we both know that we have each other always. I think that we need to know that before we go to England. I want you know for certain that I love you."

"And I love you, always," Rory said back, she leaned over the table and kissed Jess deeply.

"Coffee," Luke called out as he walked up the table, two cups in his hand. Rory reached for hers and took a deep gulp. Letting out a long groan as the warm liquid drifted down her throat, Rory glanced down at her hands wrapped around the coffee cup, and she liked the look of Jess's ring against her finger.

Luke then put down a large paper bag in between them on the table as he sat down next to Jess. "One care package, its got everything you like, all that unhealthy junk your mother got you on to and I also included some healthy things for Jess."

"Oh," Rory said loudly, shocking both boys, she pulled out the fifty letters she had talked about and gave them to Luke. "You don't think everyone will hate me for leaving like this, do you?"

"They'll understand, you were very close to your mother, it's natural for you to want to go away for a bit, until your memories get easier to deal with." Luke said, Rory was about to correct him on the reason she and Jess were leaving but then she remembered Luke had no idea. Rory was so used to him knowing everything about her life that she momentarily forgot she wasn't telling him the biggest news... She might be able to tell him, once Voldemort is beaten and she is reunited with Sirius and Harry.

There was a loud honk form outside and they saw the yellow taxi through the heavy buckets of rain. Jess stood up and went to the window, waving at the driver.

"Oh god, its not enough time to say everything I want to say," Rory said, her hands beginning to shake again. Luke reached across the table and held onto them.

"Rory," he said, his tears tearing up, Rory felt it hard to swallow. "I've always thought of you as the daughter I never had, I loved your mother, and I love you, more then I can say."

"Good answer" she croaked, Luke let out a laugh. They both stood up and wrapped in a tight hug. "I'll miss you most of all, Luke." She sobbed, breaking down her composed wall.

She moved away and slipped on her backpack double checking the tickets. She turned around and saw Luke and Jess hugging. She turned and tried to lift her suit case but gave up after many vain attempts, it was so heavy!

"See you around," Luke said, softly punching Jess's shoulder.

Luke then went over and picked up their two suit cases with ease, Rory just rolled her eyes. She grabbed the care package and made a mad dash to the taxi, managing to get soaked in the short distance. Jess was still helping Luke load up the back seat. Jess finally scotched into the back seat with Rory. Before he closed the door, Luke peaked into the car.

"You will call, or at least give me some kind of contact!" Luke said.

"Of course, goodbye Luke," Rory said then added lightly, "Catch you on the flipside."

With a smile Luke closed the door and the driver drove away slowly, Rory turned around and saw that the bright yellow taxi had caught the attention of Taylor who was now standing with Luke, she watch in sadness as Luke handed him on of the white letters.

Rory sat forward again and Jess placed his hand on her own.

"You know what's weird," Rory said suddenly. "I'm really going to miss Taylor!"

"It'll be ok, Rory," Jess comforted. "I promise."

Rory rested her head against Jess's shoulder and looked out the window, watching Stars Hollow as it slowly melted away. Her head filling with sad and anxious thoughts.

(A/N) Next chapter Harry is introduced, I promise, lol