A/N: just a little story I wanted to share from my day at school. Feel free to go on and read the chapter, this has nothing to do with the story, lol. I was at my afternoon class and the teacher was talking about stereotypes or something, I was zoning off a little as usual.. and then suddenly I heard her saying, 'so the canadian stereotype is like where you see someone wearing a backward baseball cap and a flannel shirt.' and I thought, No! That's Luke! That's Luke Danes! and I was awake again. The GG power is so strong. Enjoy the story guys!

Chapter 17: Part 2

January 5th 7pm Luke's apartment

' I spanked him.' Luke said it so terrifyingly like he just confessed that he killed someone.

'Hello to you too.' Lorelai replied, 'Who did you spank? Kirk? Or wait..Taylor! You spanked Taylor, didn't you! Why didn't you call me! I wanted to be there and see that!'

' For God Sake, this is serious, Lorelai! I suck at parenting! I just spanked Jess! I didn't ask, I didn't think, I just got so angry and I hit him! I'm terrible!' Luke blurted out.

Lorelai could hear it through her boyfriend's voice, it was again that desperate, helpless tone from yesterday with the haircut issue. ' Okay, Luke you need to calm down first of all.'

'I can't calm down! Jess said I'm just like Jack! I AM Jack! I had just become that cold-blooded abusive guy!' Luke had a glimpse of panic in his voice.

' Okay, Luke, you're nothing like Jack ok. Remember after the hospital? The bruises and the welts on Jess's arm and back? I know you would never do that to Jess. I've seen you spank Jess that day we were watching the world series. That was no where near abusive, Luke.'

'You don't understand! I literally spanked him this time, I didn't count, but it must have been more than five times with my hand. Shit, Lorelai! I am nothing but an abusive animal!'

Lorelai couldn't help but chuckle, ' You're not an abusive animal Luke, you are a lot of things, but you are never an abusive animal okay? you just thought this is your only option to teach Jess a lesson based on your own childhood. You didn't realize Jess is different from other kids, you can't just discipline him the way your father did. Besides, that was quite serious, he shoved Dean on to the ice and then punched his nose until it was bleeding.'

'What?!'

'Wait...you didn't know about this?!'

' Jess came home and just went nuts, he didn't tell me anything! So he got into a fight?'

' It wasn't technically a fight, the other boy didn't fight back according to Rory. To make the long story short, Jess was jealous of the other boy being better at everything and that Rory was being very friendly with Dean. He couldn't hold it anymore and punched the boy.'

' Okay, this is even worse now. I smacked him while he went and punched another boy. Do you see this Lorelai! He solves his problems by using his fist and he learnt it from me!'

'No I don't think it was your fault here, it must be the constant abuse he got from people like Jack before he came here. You have got to stop blaming yourself! So tell me, if you didn't know about the punching, why did you spank him?'

' He was throwing a big temper, went nuts and I was calm that time, I put him in bed and told him to calm down and all of a sudden he threw the F bomb at me, loud and clear! Then I got angry, scared and disappointed, I mean he's just 8! And he's already cursing when he gets angry! What's gonna happen when he's 18 and angry? Buy a gun and shoot someone?!' Luke exclaimed.

' Luke listen to me, you really have to calm down. You're exaggerating, I'm sure Jess didn't mean to say that, he probably heard it somewhere else. I know you call and ask for help like yesterday. Which made me remember, how could you POSSIBLY mess up two days in a roll, Luke! Anyway, the point is, there's nothing I could help you here, but to tell you to calm down and try to talk with Jess. And in the future, adjust your parenting strategy cause obviously this is not working out for you and Jess.'

Luke took a deep breathe, ' You're right. Why are you always right? Damn it.. But the thing is, he won't speak to me, he just curled up into a ball on the bed again!'

'Luke, give him some time, he will.'

'What if he doesn't?'

'He will.'

After the phone call, Luke decided to make Jess's favourite food for dinner to try and see if it can lure the boy into talking to him.

Luke walked into Jess's room to find all the books which were supposed to be on the bookshelf, scattered all around the floor. He tried his best to not step on the books. He found his nephew sitting beside the bed and was tearing a book up.

Luke knelt down beside Jess and asked him softly, ' Jess, what are you doing?'

' It's none of your business! Go away!' Jess yelled with hiccups in between. Obviously, he cried for quite awhile after Luke left him in the room.

Luke sighed defeatedly and hung his head low, he was trying but the boy wouldn't give in. He noticed this was Jess's favourite book, he read it over and over again since the day Rory gave it to him. ' I thought this is your favourite book! Why are you destroying it?'

' Because this book sucks! Stinks! It's full of crap!' Jess growled with anger. He stood up and stomped the remaining of the book with his right foot before kicking it on to the wall.

Luke knew this was not the time to scold Jess about manners and temper, he simply stated, 'Jess, I made your 'super delicioso pepperoni and salami pizza'. You must be starving, let's go eat.'

Jess hopped on to his bed and covered himself entirely with the blanket, before he mumbled, 'I'm not hungry.'

Luke remembered Lorelai saying that he should give him some time, 'Okay, come out when you feel hungry, alright?' He patted the blanket covered Jess by the shoulder.

Jess did not reply him and Luke just walked out of the room quietly. Luke was devastated, he was feeling worse and worse about what he did, he lost his appetite. He put the pizza into the fridge and grabbed a bottle of beer out. The apartment was so quiet, Luke was not in mood for anything, he just wanted to talk to Jess, but nothing was going his way today. He finished his beer and went straight to bed, trying to forget about the day.

January 6th 1am

Luke was lying on his bed, he tossed to the other side, looking at the clock on the night stand. In less than four hours you have to get up and work, Luke! Sleep!

Luke just couldn't sleep at all, he tried his best to distract his mind but those words 'I hate you! You're just like Jack!' and Jess's terrified face the day he asked Luke 'Are you going to hit me?' all rushed into Luke's mind the more he tried to stop thinking about it. Whenever he closed his eyes, he pictured Jess sitting alone in the dark in New York, cold and scared, hoping something would save him but there wasn't anyone to save him. He opened his eyes and stared at Jess's bedroom door, he imagined Jess still curled up in a ball under his blanket, weeping and starving. Thinking that his uncle was just like every other person in his life that had given up on him and hated him. He shut his eyes closed again when he felt like a tear was going to slip out from his eyes. He wished he could go back in time and change everything, but it's too late, he lost Jess. He lost his boy.

Luke ran his hands over his face to rub off the few tears that rolled down from the corner of his eyes before he opened his eyes. There in the middle of the dark, stood a small little dark figure and sounds of soft sobs and sniffling ran into Luke's ears. Luke immediately wipe his face again and switched on the lamp beside his bed. When the light was on, all he saw was a puffy teary eyed little boy in his dinosaurs pyjamas clinging to his stuffed animal, Speedy.

Luke was about to say something before Jess started first, 'I can't sleep. Can I sleep here with you?' Jess sniffled.

Luke nodded with a small smile before Jess hopped on to Luke's bed. Luke carefully pulled the blanket up until Jess's shoulders. He then sat up, turned off the lamp and laid down. No words were exchanged between the Uncle and Nephew. Luke listened quietly to Jess's little hiccups and sniffles while trying to hold back from wailing up as well. Jess slowly scooted closer and closer to Luke while still clinging to the whale. They both were lying on side ways, Luke's face was facing Jess's back. Jess knew he upset his uncle and he felt bad for saying those words, he really didn't mean it. Luke noticed Jess probably wanted to lean on him and sleep, so he gently pulled the boy close to him, which caused Jess to suddenly burst into tears. He was feeling awful that after what he said to his uncle, he was still here to forgive him. Jess couldn't hold it anymore, he turned around and snuggled on to Luke and buried his face on to Luke's chest. ' I'm sorry.' Jess cried. Luke wrapped his arms around Jess, 'I'm sorry, too.' Luke apologized softly trying hard to not reveal he was wailing up as well in his voice, he planted a kiss on the top of Jess's head. Luke just let the few teardrops secretly fall on his face, he felt much more relieved after apologizing to Jess.

The two stopped speaking again after the sorrys, Luke smoothed Jess's back gently and let the boy snuggle on him and let him cry out all the guilt and unhappiness which was planted inside of him for all these hours or may be it was for all those years. It was a long 15 minutes, but Luke could not be happier and grateful that after all, Jess decided to come back and open up to him.

' I love Rory, but Rory doesn't love me.' Jess confessed after he calmed down from crying, he was still snuggling on to Luke.

Luke couldn't believe Jess was that serious about this. He thought Jess was just having one of those kids phase where everyone claimed that they like a girl and that's their girlfirend, but Jess sounded very sincere. 'Jess, I'm sure Rory doesn't hate you.'

'She shouted at me today, saying 'Go Away Jess!' Jess explained, still sniffling.

' You know, sometimes, girls are very complicated. When they say yes, they actually mean no, and I'm sure it's just the same with Rory. She didn't actually mean to say go away to you.' Luke comforted him.

'I punched a boy from school on the nose. And Rory now hates me for this.' Jess said it quietly.

'I know you did, Lorelai told me everything. You know, you don't have to be jealous of Dean, he's just being friendly to you and Rory. Besides, Rory's always friendly to everyone, and you know that too.' Luke calmly explained to him.

'You not mad at me for hitting someone?' Jess questioned looking up to his uncle with his big brown eyes.

Luke took a deep breathe before he spoke, 'No I'm not mad at you, because it was my fault.'

Jess looked up to Luke all confused, how could that be his fault? Jess thought.

Luke continued, 'I should have never hit you because I was angry at you, that was wrong. And because of it, you learn to hit others when you're mad.'

'It's not your fault, Uncle Luke.' Jess assured his uncle, looking down at his stuffed animal, starting to feel guilty again.

Luke went on, 'Let's forget about today, alright? From now on, we both start learning how to control our anger okay?'

'Okay' Jess returned him a tiny smile, 'man to man, fist bump promise?' Jess held out his right hand.

Luke smiled and fist pump Jess with his right fist, 'man to man, fist bump promise. Now go to sleep.'

Jess turned back to his side and the room was quiet for another minute before Jess interrupted the silence.

' Uncle Luke?'

'Yea?'

'Can I tell you something?' Jess asked.

' I love you, too. Now go to sleep.' Luke mumbled, he was dead tired by now.

Jess giggled, ' It's not that! Although, I love you more than the whole wide world.'

Luke blushed a little, he was overjoyed, he knew the phrase 'whole wide world' mean a lot to kids, and that was Jess's way of telling him, he is his favourite person on earth. Luke sounded all normal but really, he was over the moon, 'Sigh, then what is it?'

Jess said with a grin on his face, 'I'm sooooooo hungry!'

'Actually, me too.' Luke chuckled before he got up and turned on the lights and prepared the pizza.

Credit Roll Song: Solitaire by Wilco

niazn: Thank you for your review! It's always fun to see Luke and Jess 'dealing' with each other,haha! They're like a grumpy male version of Lorelai and Rory! Let me know what you think of this chapter!

fizco: Thank you for your review! I like your thinking, 'Jess be yourself, Rory already likes you.' That's so true. Let's hope Jess now learns a thing or two and try to get it going! Let me know what you think of this chapter!

Droolia: Thank you for your review! Wow! Your favourite chapter so far! Thank you! Yes I know what you mean by 'I hate you Dean for being you' because really Dean was a decent guy in the show and a really good boyfriend but Jess with that charming eyes, background story and bad boy attitude just caught everyone's heart, so I didn't want Dean to be all mean and rude, that was certainly not his character. Yea, Rory did get a little overwhelmed, but it was all these excitement and being friendly I guess, I had to build up something to get Jess jealous :P It's gonna be okay, Luke's probably gonna be Dr. Phil again in the next chapter and help Jess out a little. ;p Alright let's talk about football, go Panthers! I'm a steelers fan but my second favourite is panthers, they truly are unstoppable at the moment. The confidence that they show before the game already made them a winner. Don't get me wrong though, I like Peyton Manning, such a down to earth guy! and he's retiring too.. I just can't help it, I like the Panthers better! Actually, can't wait for the super bowl cause that means my first mid term will be done and reading week will be here soon! Haha!

RhizOneill: Thank you for your review! Sorry for always dropping these little bombs on occasions :p let me know what you think of this chapter!

Anon1: Thank you for your review! Problem solved! They will always make up, no worries :) And yes! Jess is Peter Petrelli!( and FYI Dean is Sam from Supernatural!) So this is the story of how I got into GG. I started watching Heroes and loved the character Peter Petrelli aka Milo Ventimiglia (I was 12/13 lol...) so I decided to watch Milo's other shows and came across Gilmore Girls, the show had probably ended by the time I started watching it, and I was just hooked! Highly recommend you to watch this video on youtube if you want to get to know more about the Luke/Jess relationship and Jess the character on the show, 'The Best of Jess Mariano (S2-S6)' it's only 5 minutes, let me know if you watched the video! or this chapter, haha!