Takes place right at the end of "Nag Hammadi Is Where They Found the Gnostic Gospels" Jess and Rory are leaving together...will it be forever?

Disclaimer: *waves at crowd* Thank you, thank you! I'd be honored to take possession of Gilmore Girls. Thank you! *Wakes up from dream* Oh, I don't own it, do I? Only in my dreams... Haha

Will Jess tell Rory what's going on with him?

"Morning Lorelai!" Luke greeted Lorelai before pouring her coffee.

"Hey Luke." Lorelai said, a little distracted.

Luke watched Lorelai take the first sip of coffee. When she set the mug away and looked in the opposite direction, Luke got worried.

"Does the coffee taste okay? 'Cuz Cesar made it-"

"I make perfectly fine coffee Luke!"

Luke opened his mouth to respond but Lorelai put a hand on his arm.

"Luke, the coffee's fine."

"HA! See?!"

"Get back to work Cesar!"

Lorelai giggled and took another sip.

"So anything on your mind?" Luke asked, not paying attention to Kirk who was trying to get his attention by doing a solo wave in the back of the room.

"Um-uh-" Lorelai tried to find the right words before blurting out "How did Jimmy know about us?"

Luke looked taken back. "What?"

Lorelai repeated "How did Jimmy know about us?"

"Jimmy, Jimmy as in Jess' father?"

"Yeah. And how does that Amy girl know my mother?"

Luke looked really confused.

"Uh- Let me call Liz." Luke said grabbing the phone.

"I thought she lived upstairs for now."

"Nah, she and TJ rented an apartment a few blocks away." Luke said dialing the number.

"Oh."

"Yeah. Hi? Liz? Lorelai wanted to talk to you-"

Lorelai began waving her hands, trying to keep Luke from giving the phone to her. He ignored her gesture and she sighed and took the phone.

"Hi Liz."

"Lorelai! How ya doing?"

"Oh, just fine...Hey so, I wanted to ask you something."

"Shoot."

"Uhm, that Amy from the dinner? How does she know my mother?"

"Your mother? I don't know. Unless your mother is in the DAR as well-"

"Amy's in the DAR!?"

"Ofcourse! She doesn't want to be, but her mother made her join when she was young-"

"And she and Jimmy are dating?"

"Oh, are they now?" Liz sounded distant all of a sudden. Her perkiness vanished.

"So my mom says."

"Ah, well then. To the happy couple!" Liz said.

"Liz?"

"Yeah Lorelai?"

"I'm sorry."

"Ah no, don't be. I love TJ. Jimmy's long gone."

"Oh, alright then. Well thanks Liz. I'll see you around?"

"You sure will! Bye Lorelai."

"Bye Liz."

Lorelai handed the phone back to Luke who hung it back on the counter. He watched Lorelai carefully.

"She, wants me, to break them up." Lorelai said slowly, hearing her voice shake.

"Who wants you to? Who's 'them'?"

"My mom. She wants me to break up Jess and Rory." Lorelai said quietly.

"What!? Why?"

"Be-because she thinks that Jess will leave her, and I told her no! He won't...She thinks Rory will end up like me... Raising a child on her own. Her kid having no father... I told her that's not going to happen because I chose to leave before. Chris was all for marrying me but I didn't want to. Rory and Jess do want to." Lorelai said, half between crying and angry.

Luke looked around at Pattie who was listening intently. His eyes begged for help.

"Lorelai, hun. Let's get you home today. I'll call Sookie, take the day off-" Ms. Pattie said coming over and gently putting her arms around Lorelai.

"No." Lorelai said firmly. "I have to work-"

"No hun, you can take a day off. You've been working hard for the past few weeks. Let's get you home."

Lorelai nodded and stumbled off her stool.

"You wanna use my truck?" Luke offered taking the keys out of his pocket.

Ms. Pattie shook her head. "I think walking will be good for her right now..."

Babette and Lulu got up from their table and came over to help.

"Oh, I have to pay-" Lorelai said, trying to turn back to Luke but he waved it off.

"Don't worry about it."

See what Emily does to Lorelai!? Grr. Sorry, back to the story now...

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Jess didn't let Rory leave the aparment all day. He didn't leave himself either. He ordered food for dinner and kept Rory occupied. Finally, she had to ask. Halfway through their Take Out dinner, Rory put her fork down and looked at Jess.

"Jess, do you want to talk about it?"

"Talk about what?"

"I don't know, whatever has you acting this way."

Jess looked thoughtfully at Rory. "Like I said. I can't lose you."

"Jess, I wish you'd stop hiding how you feel. I can help, this is just like the time you failed and couldn't graduate-"

Jess looked back down.

"Jess, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to go there-"

"No Rory, it's okay." He said digging around in the cardboard box.

Rory, sensing the conversation was over, went back to eating. Then another thought occurred to her.

"You didn't get hurt did you?"

Jess shook his head and got up to throw away the trash. Rory also stood up and started to help.

"Do you want to look at places now?" Jess asked when they had finished cleaning.

Rory nodded and the two of them went into the bathroom and leafed through the newspapers.

An hour later, Rory came upon a place that seemed perfect.

"Look Jess!" She said excitedly, knocking a newspaper out of Jess' hands.

He looked at her curiously.

"Look! It's only a mile and a half away from the campus, has a small kitchen, two bedrooms, open space and a security guarantee! There's even a day care in the building! For the baby! And the building was just finished being made a few days ago so we know there isn't any damage!"

Jess smiled at Rory's excitement and looked at the page she was holding up.

"I can afford that!" He said smiling.

Rory slapped him playfully. "I'm going to help pay for it" She said grinning.

Jess shrugged. "If it'll make you happy. What really makes me happy is the security guarantee."

Rory laughed and threw her arms around Jess.

"Everythings going perfectly Jess! We should call and get the apartment now! We have the apartment, the baby's healthy and we're getting married in two weeks!"

Jess laughed. "What? No Pro/Con list about any of it?" He asked rolling over and pinning Rory down by her shoulders on the bed.

"Do not mock the list! They come in handy sometimes. But for right now all I can see is PRO PRO PRO!" She laughed again.

Jess smiled and rolled off Rory and lay next to her, playing with her hair.

"Wow..." She whispered.

"What?"

"We're getting married Jess." She breathed.

He smiled. Both of them knew they were getting married, but had not taken the time to actually realize the happiness it brought them.

"Yeah Rory. We are." He smiled and kissed her cheek.

"Jess?"

"Hmm?"

"What do you mean by you can't lose me? I'm not going anywhere."

Jess sighed. "I'll have to tell you sooner or later, won't I?"

She nodded.

"Last night I saw a car accident. A father, mother and a baby were in it. Only the father survived. Then I had a dream that-that happened to me." He choked out.

Rory's eyes widened in horror. "Jess, I'm not going anywhere." She said and cuddled into him.

He put his arms around her - their favorite position - and kissed her head.

"Okay." He whispered and they fell asleep.

:) Thanks to those who have voted, for those who have not... July 10th!!! I think it was a little OOC for Lorelai to act like that, but she doesn't want to hurt Rory... Was it too weird? In the next chapter I'll show Lane and Zack's dinner as another flashback. Reviews are always welcome - but please no bashing!