"Jess!" the shout came from above them on the hilltop, and it wasn't a friendly greeting. Dean couldn't get to them fast enough.

"Dean--" Rory said, panicked. "Don't get mad."

"You don't want me to get mad?" he shouted. "I see you sneaking away from a wedding you're supposed to be in, by the way, in two minutes, and find you down here, with Jess." he said disgustedly.

"Dean, wait." Rory cried softly, running to his side. She wrapped her arms around him, but he pushed her away.

"It's Jess or me, Rory. Choose."

"Fine." Rory snapped. "If he'll have me, I choose Jess."

"What?" Dean had expected a different answer.

"Dean, obviously things have been rough for some time now, and I'll just put you out of your misery. I choose Jess." she paused. "If he'll have me."

Jess walked to Rory's side, dipped her over, and kissed her. "I've been waiting to do that since the day we met." he confessed.

"Good. Now that everything's settled, I get to kill Jess." Dean said flatly, and threw the first punch. Jess was knocked backwards off his feet, and he tumbled down the hillside. Rory, who had been in his arms, was now on the ground. She got up, ready to give Dean a piece of her mind, but when Jess didn't get up, she knew something was wrong.

Rory practically fell down the incline as she ran to Jess's still form on the ground. Dean had disappeared, and Rory began screaming for help. Lorelai, who had been waiting for Rory, was already running in that direction. She had seen the exchange from a distance, and was running as fast as she could in heels.

"Rory?" Lorelai called out. Then she looked down and saw the pair, crumpled on the grass.

"Mom!" Rory cried. "Call an ambulance!"

Lorelai called for an ambulance, and since the wedding had ground to a halt with two bridesmaids missing, the guests were following Lorelai's frantic trail. Andrew and Kirk reached the girls and Jess first.

"Stay clear." Kirk said authoritatively. "I'm a trained First Responder." He then proceeded to check Jess's pulse, and covered him with someone's jacket. Soon, the EMTs arrived and whisked Jess away to the Stars Hollow Community Hospital. Lorelai and Rory were asked to stay by the police. Before answering any questions, however, Lorelai asked one of Kirk.

"Kirk--" she began to ask.

"As accident-prone as I am, you never assumed I would be a trained responder?" he asked.

"Makes sense now." she nodded, and returned to Rory's side to answer the police's questions.