A/N: Thank you for the reviews, I hope you enjoy this chapter(and wow, chapter 10 already!).

Well trained

A couple of days later, Jess walked in the apartment, only to be greeted by Rory jumping up from the couch and hugging him. After a few seconds of shock, he finally put his arms around her as well, kissing her cheek.

"Miss me that much?" He smirked and she nodded, crushing her mouth to his. When she pulled back she smiled, letting go of his neck and letting him finally drop his bag.

"Yes. And Laura called."

"And?"

"And I'm really, officially, doctor said so, blood test confirms it, pregnant."

"Good." He cupped her face in his hands and kissed her. "Not that it wasn't sure the first time she said it, or when your test said it, but…"

"But don't mock me. You're not allowed to be mean to me today."

"When am I mean to you?"

"When you're late coming home from work and I have to worry about you?"

"That's not mean, that's traffic. And work. The second one of which is kind of important if we actually want this kid to not sleep on the floor." He kissed her, running his fingers down her back slowly. "Can I walk inside now or are we going to stand here all day?"

"You can come in now." She kissed him one more time and he shook his head slowly, then walked in, crashing on the couch. Sitting down next to him, Rory ran her fingers through his hair. "Long day?"

"Kind of. Lots of things to do."

"Sorry." She smiled sympathetically and he stopped her hand, placing a quick kiss on her palm.

"How was your day?"

"Not bad."

"Eat well?"

"Yes. Had milk with my cereal, and I finished it even after the cereal was gone, left the salad and the tomatoes on my sandwich. All good. Oh, and we're out of peaches."

"Again?"

"Yeah, well, they're good."

Pulling her closer to him, Jess kissed her, his hand playing in her hair. "I'll buy some more tomorrow. Anything else you want?"

"Not really."

"Ok. If you can think of anything, give me a call and I'll grab it on my way home, ok?"

"I have you well trained." She laughed, crawling closer to him on the couch and putting her legs over his.

"Next you'll teach me to bark on command."

"Will you do it for a treat?"

"Depends on the nature of the treat." He whispered in her ear, kissing her neck. "Anything else exciting happened today?"

"Not really. Got home early and have been lounging on the couch since, trying to not fall asleep while looking for an apartment."

"This tired thing hasn't gone away yet, has it?"

"Nope." She rested her head on his shoulder and he put his arm around her waist, hugging her close to him.

"Sorry." He kissed the top of her head, making her smile. "Any luck finding a new place?"

"Not really. Any disasters happen at work?"

"Nothing out of the ordinary. One of Matt's poets got him drunk last night so he was in a bad mood."

"Which I'm sure you and Chris helped by being as loud as possible."

"Eh, that's what he deserves for going out on a school night." He let out a small chuckle. "But after we pulled out the loud music, he admitted that he had gone out with Jane."

"Again?"

"Oh, yeah."

"Which you then proceeded to mock."

"Hey, he's making it too easy."

"Evil." She leaned in, kissing him. "Want some coffee?"

"Is there any in the pot?"

"Decaf."

"I'll take it." Jess nodded and she got up, running her fingers through his hair one more time before going to the kitchen and coming back with a mug filled with coffee. Handing it to him, she smiled.

"Here you go."

"Thank you." He replied, smiling back at her as she sat down next to him again.

"You know that while I appreciate the gesture, you don't have to drink decaf with me, right?"

"I know. But, the way I figure, I might as well. Making two different pots of coffee is crazy when we only have one machine and I get enough real coffee at work. And you're the caffeine addict here, not me."

"Oh, yeah, 'cause you never ever drink too much coffee."

"Your fault." He pointed his finger at her, smirking. "You're a bad influence."

"Oh, please." Rory snorted, trying not to laugh. Pulling her in for a kiss, he tangled his hand in her hair.

"Are you trying to say anything with that comment?"

"No. I'm definitely the bad influence here. You're just a poor innocent boy who's being corrupted by my evil ways. After all, I did make you watch Godfather last week."

"If anyone needed more proof…" He chuckled, kissing her one more time before he let go of her neck. Crossing her legs under her, she looked at him, her hand resting on his knee.

"I was wondering today if you want to tell Matt and Chris about the baby."

"I don't know. Can I tell them?"

"Jess, of course you can." She lifted her hand, caressing his cheek slowly. "This isn't just my thing. If you want to tell them, you can."

"I thought you didn't want a lot of people to know about it."

"Yes, but they're your friends. It's not like we're talking about two random people in the street."

"I believe random people in the street would be completely uninterested in this."

"Unless they're in the street of Stars Hollow, then they would be very, very interested."

"They're interested in what brand of shampoo we use."

"No, that's just Kirk. And he only asked twice." She laughed, leaning in and kissing him quickly. "But it feels like everyone who knows about this is someone from my side, so to speak."

"How about Luke?"

"He's shared custody. He might be your uncle, but he's my step-father as well." She giggled again, making him smile.

"Do you want to be there when I tell them? They're kind of shared custody friends after all this time."

"I can't skip work."

"I was thinking more like asking them over for dinner and a movie."

"Oh, good idea. You're clever sometimes."

"Just sometimes?" He smirked, kissing her quickly.

"Wouldn't want you to start thinking too much of yourself." Rory cupped his face in her hand, running her thumb over his lips. "See if they can make it tomorrow night. And, after we tell them, you'll have someone to complain to when I become completely unreasonable and insane."

"You mean more than you already are, right?" Jess laughed, placing a small kiss on her finger.

"Didn't I say you have to be nice to me tonight?"

"I'll try harder."

"You do that." She replied then kissed him, lowering her hand to hold his. "Can we do take-away for dinner?"

"Sure. Can't say I feel too much like cooking anyway."

"Maybe you should have found a girl that cooks then. Someone to wait for you to come home from work every night with dinner ready on the table."

"You mean I could have had that? Damn it, couldn't you have said something before I proposed to you?"

"Nope." She leaned in, putting her hands on either side of him and kissed him. "This way, I get to spend the rest of my life with you. So I'm sorry, but there's no turning back now. You're stuck with me."

Putting his hand on the back of her neck and kissing her again, he smiled softly. "I've had worse offers."

"Even if I don't cook for you?" She smiled as well, looking into his eyes.

"Even if." He kissed her one more time before letting go and she settled back on the couch, her fingers playing in his hair slowly.

"Since we were talking about telling people, when are we telling Liz about this?"

"I don't know. How long can I postpone it for?"

"Until the town finds out?" She suggested. "Which isn't going to be for another couple of months, at least. But she should hear it from you, not Miss Patty or anyone else."

"I know." He sighed, looking at her. "Can't say I'm looking forward to that conversation."

"You know I'll be there next to you, right?"

"Yeah." He nodded, smiling. "But she'll gush and hug me and all that crap. And I swear I'll kill TJ if he says anything beyond 'congratulations'."

"Why?"

"Because he feels it's his duty to give me advice. And I really don't care to hear his opinions on parenting. I'm still shocked Doula isn't completely insane, with him and the rebranded, new-and-improved Liz as parents."

Leaning in, Rory placed kiss on his temple, smiling. "I'll take TJ, so he stays away from you."

"But that leaves me with Liz." He smirked, looking at her.

"You have to pick one. I can't distract them both while you hide."

"Can't we just make Luke tell them?"

"Don't you think she should hear that she's going to be a grandmother from you?"

"Not really." He shook his head, trying not to laugh. "Especially considering that I don't want her to have any role in this kid's life." He suddenly became more serious and she nodded.

"Ok. You decide the limit of her involvement." She took his hand in hers, squeezing it softly. "What about the engagement?"

"What about it?"

"Are we telling her before the town or just wait until she finds out?"

"I don't know." Jess shook his head. "Probably should be before. Give me some time to think about it."

"Ok." She leaned in and kissed him. When she pulled back, he smirked, pushing a strand of hair behind her ear.

"You excited about telling the town?"

"Yeah. I want to see Taylor's head explode when he figures out you're sticking around for good. It will be even better when he finds out about mini-Jess. Not that the engagement isn't equally exciting, but he'll go postal thinking about all the things that could go wrong in his town."

"To be fair, he'll probably be dead before the kid becomes a teenager."

"Hey!" She slapped his shoulder playfully. "No talking about people I like dying."

"You like Taylor?"

"Yeah!" Rory protested again, making him shake his head and kiss her quickly.

"Fine. He'll be alive and well to be tortured by our child, when it becomes a teenager and decides to torture everyone. Especially us."

"At least he'll have good taste in music, for when he decides to blast music as loud as possible because he hates us."

"It."

"What?"

"You said he."

"Yeah, well, I got bored of calling our baby it. Makes me think of the clown. Or cousin It. I'm not sure which one is worse."

"I'm sorry, you already know it's a boy?"

"No, but I think I'm going to take turns. It's a boy until next week, a girl for a week after that…you get the point."

"Can I stick to using it, or do I have to keep track of your insane schedule?"

"You can stick to whatever you want." She kissed him, smiling through the kiss. "Now can we get food? I want to eat before I crash and sleep for a week."

"Or until tomorrow morning."

"Whichever one comes first." Rory laughed, picking up the phone from the table and getting ready to order dinner.