Rory Gilmore Is My Angel

"So?" I asked Rory as we sat down on the bridge. "What do we do now?"

"I don't know," Rory replied. "My thought process didn't go that far."

"Huh," I replied amused.

"I know," Rory said triumphantly. "Why don't you read to me?"

"Okay," I said. "What book do you have?"

"I don't have one."

"What?" I asked her confused. "And you call yourself a reader."

"Well," Rory said. "What book do you have?"

"Umm," I say pulling the book out of my back pocket. "Oliver Twist."

"Perfect," Rory said as she shifted her body so her head was now resting on my lap. She was facing the water.

"Comfortable?" I asked her.

"Yeah," Rory said. "Well as long as you don't mind."

"No," I told her. "It's fine."

"Come on," Rory pleaded. "Start reading already."

"Fine," I said as I opened the book and started reading.

"Read that part again," Rory said to me after a bit.

"Why?" I asked her confused as I ran my fingers absentmindedly through her hair.

"Because I like that part," Rory said.

"Fine," I relented as I re-read the passage.

"Work'us," said Noah, "how's your mother?"

"She's dead," replied Oliver; "don't you say anything about her to me!"

Oliver's color rose as he said this; he breathed quickly; and there was a curious working of the mouth and nostrils, which Mr. Claypole thought must be the immediate precursor of a violent fit of crying. Under this impression he returned to the charge.

"What did she die of Work'us?" said Noah.

"Of a broken heart, some of our old nurses told me," replied Oliver, more as if he was talking to himself than answering Noah. "I think I know what it must be to die of that!"

I finished the paragraph and noticed that Rory was about to start crying.

"Ssshhh," I whispered, trying to calm down the girl in my lap. "It has a happy ending my Blue-Eyed-Angel."

Rory turned her body so she was now facing me, silent tears running down her face.

"Dodger?" she questioned me.

"Yeah," I answered as I wiped the tears away from her cheeks. "It's me, my angel."

"Oh, Jess," Rory said as she pulled my head down and kissed me. "I hoped it was you… I didn't know what I would've done if it wasn't."

"Ssshhh," I said to my angel again as I kissed her back. "Only you could make Jess Mariano fall in love twice."

"Twice?" Rory questioned me.

"Well sure," I replied. "You're just that…" I didn't get any more out before Rory's lips once again crashed against my own.

"So?" Rory questioned when she pulled away.

"So?" I countered.

"Did you know it was me?" Rory asked as she moved, so she was now sitting on my lap.

"No," I replied truthfully. I put my arms around her and rested my head on her shoulder. "I had no idea… What about you?"

"Not until you called me your blue-eyed-angel?" Rory said. "It would've been a weird coincidence if someone other than my Dodger called me that."

"Yeah," I replied amused. "That would be pretty funny."

"Wait," Rory said in realization. "So your mom did that to you?" Rory asked motioning towards my face.

"Yeah," I said, "that's why I couldn't give you a proper goodbye the last time we spoke… she surprised me."

"So, she sent you here?" Rory asked. "To live with Luke… Your uncle."

"Yeah," I answered her. "She's in rehab."

"Really?" Rory asked me. "That's good."

"Yeah," I agreed, "but enough about that… Wait, shouldn't you be in school, it's Monday?"

"I skipped," Rory said. "I told my mom I wasn't feeling well… I wanted to be home in case you came around."

"Ironic isn't it?" I said to my angel.

"What is?" Rory asked confused.

"It's ironic how we planned our first meeting," I explained to her. "I was to read you Oliver Twist while you skipped school… it's just weird how it happened without either of us planning it."

"Fate," Rory answered.

"I think you're right," I said as I hugged her to me close and kissed her cheek. "You know," I told Rory truthfully. "You're the first person that I've ever loved."

"Really?" Rory asked me in awe. "Well you're the first boy I've ever loved."

"So you love girls?" I joked with her.

"No," Rory quickly replied, flushing red.

"So no boyfriends?" I asked her. Surely that couldn't be right.

"No," Rory said. "I had one… Dean, but he dumped me earlier this year because I didn't say that I loved him."

"Wise move," I said and she looked at me confused. "If you had said it back, then your mom wouldn't have forced you into that chat room and we wouldn't have met."

"Yeah," Rory said, "and if you attended school regularly then you wouldn't have been forced into that chat room either."

"Funny how things work, isn't it?" I said to Rory.

"Yeah," Rory agreed.

"So what do you want to do now?" I asked her.

"I don't know," Rory replied. "Wait… Can it be anything?"

"Sure," I said to my angel. I'd give her the world.

"Can we go back to my house?" Rory asked excitedly.

"Why?" I asked her confused. "I like this bridge, it's our bridge."

"Yeah," Rory agreed, "we should get Taylor to make up another plaque… this time with both our names on it."

"Sure," I replied, "we'll get right on that."

"So can we go back to the house?" Rory asked me again. "I want to talk to you online."

"What?" I asked her confused. "Why? I'm right here you know."

"So," Rory said. "I like talking to you online."

"Fine, hop up," I said and she climbs off me.

Rory held out her hand for me and I took it willingly, standing up.

We walked in a comfortable silence to her house, hand in hand.

"Okay," Rory ordered me as we step inside. "Sit on the bed."

"Okay," I said as I sat on her bed.

"Here," Rory said as she handed me my laptop.

"Thanks," I replied sarcastically as she grabbed her laptop and joined me on her bed.

"Don't use that tone with me," Rory said as she switches on her laptop. "Come on… log on already."

"Logging on," I replied as I switched the computer on and logged in.

"Oh look," Rory said. "My Dodger's online."

"Huh," I replied. "Go figure."

"Jess," Rory warned. "Behave."

Blue-Eyed-Angel: Hey, you're online

"Rory," I said, "this is so stupid… I'm sitting right next to you."

"Write," Rory demanded.

Dodger: Yeah, I'm online

Blue-Eyed-Angel: So are you going to ask me?

Dodger: Ask you what?

Blue-Eyed-Angel: The important question you've forgotten and I was avoiding

Dodger: Sure… So, where do you live?

Blue-Eyed-Angel: Stars Hollow, Connecticut… you?

Dodger: Huh, same here

Blue-Eyed-Angel: Really?

Dodger: Yes

"Rory," I said as I looked at her. "This is ridiculous."

"Yeah," Rory agreed, "but it's how we met."

"So?" I questioned her.

"So," Rory explained, "if it weren't for this chat room and these sign in names we never would've met."

"We would've met," I told her surely.

"Really?" Rory asked me confused. "How can you be so sure?"

"Because you're my soul mate," I said. "The universe wouldn't have kept us apart forever."

"You're sweet," Rory said as she kissed me.

"Rory, I'm home," Lorelai said. "I just wanted to see how you were feeling… Okay on the bed kissing Luke's nephew… Wait, that's not right."

"Hi, Mom," Rory said nervously as she blushed.

"Lorelai," I said.

"I thought you were sick," Lorelai questioned her daughter.

"Jess was playing doctor," Rory replied.

"Sure, sure," Lorelai said. "So why are you kissing Luke's nephew in your bed after only knowing him for two days?"

"Mom," Rory said excitedly. "Meet Dodger."

"Ah," Lorelai said in realization. "So you're the famous Dodger that stole my daughter's heart?"

"Apparently," I replied.

"Well, okay then," Lorelai said as she turned to leave. "Oh and, Rory?"

"Yeah."

"No more skipping school unless you're really sick," Lorelai said. "You know what happened to the boy who cried wolf."

"Okay, sure," Rory replied.

"Okay," Lorelai said nervously. "As you were… Nope, not that… I'm just going to leave and pretend I didn't see anything."

"So?" I asked Rory after Lorelai left. "Where were we?"

"I don't know," Rory replied mischievously.

"Well lucky for you I have an exceptional memory," I said as I kissed her.

"I love you, Dodger," Rory said, breaking from the kiss.

"I love you too, my angel," I replied as I pulled my angel into a hug… I was never going to let her go.

So that's how it happened. How I, Jess Mariano, fell in love with the most incredible woman. I never thought it was possible for me to fall in love, let alone twice, but I did and I wouldn't have it any other way. Rory was in my life now and she was there to stay… I would never let her go.

The End

A/N: Be sure to check out my other Rory/Jess full length fics: The Ripple Effect (2008) - University of Texas (2008) - Holden and LJ (2008) - I Can't Read Your Mind (2008) - Juvenile Delinquents (2009) - The Subsect by Jess Mariano (2016)