There's no me without you
The story starts the day after Rory is back from Washington. She is upset after seeing Jess with that girl.(*Rory never told Lorelai about the kiss or her feelings for Jess) Lorelai and Luke have no idea what happened. All they know is that Jess and Rory are angry and they are determined to make them get along.
bChapter 1: The fight/b
"Mom!" Rory called as she enter the front door of her small two bedroom home. "Anybody home," she took off her jacket and hung it on the coat hook by the door then grabbed her bag and headed down the hall to her room. Carefully opening her book bag she pulled out her books. It was her first day back a school and she couldn't get over seeing Jess and the girl kiss the day before. She shook her head and opened her book trying to get home out of her mind, she had decide to stay with Dean yesterday, but why couldn't she get Jess out of her thoughts. She was interrupted by the sound of front door.
"Rory!" Lorelai called hauling a huge basket of fruit into the kitchen
"Hey stranger." Rory joked as she enter the kitchen and grabbed and apple from the basket the Lorelai had placed on the counter. She grabbed another apple and threw it to Lorelai, who in return threw it back. "Too healthy?" Rory joked. "Where'd you get the basket from?"
Sookie. It your welcome home present."
Taking one last bite of the apple, she threw it in the trash. "Nothing says welcome home like a basket of fruit."
"You said it." Lorelai laughed and planted herself in a kitchen chair.
"So.. it was weird being back.
"I'll bet Hey idea"
Rory pulled open the snack cabinet and took out a bag of chips ahoy cookies.
"That's my girl. The Gilmore girls don't eat healthy food!" Lorelai was so happy to have Rory home. It was lonely without her.
"What's your idea?"
"Well, i was thinking ... now go with me here cause this is different. We should go to Luke's and get coffee."
"Ouuu."
"Ouu what's the ouu why the ouuu?"
"Nothing. It just ... aren't you and Luke fighting?"
"Yes, but I'm having a coffee with draw! I'm gone cold turkey for 5 months."
"Mom it's only been a few weeks."
"It seems longer." She slammed her head on the kitchen table. "Come on. You can be my excuse!"
"Ah ha!" Rory held up her finger. "So now the true reason for you wanting me home so bad comes out! You're using me for the coffee."
"Hey addiction can make you do crazy things." she joked.
"So can love." Rory whispered softly to herself and then made a decision that she knew she would regret. "Fine let go."
"Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I knew i loved you."
"Yes I was born so you could drink coffee." She grabbed Lorelai purse from the counter and handed it to her. "Don't they make a patch for this?"
"Nope I already checked."
As the girls approached the diner they could see Luke scrubbing the counters. There was hardly anyone in there, but that wasn't anything new at this time of day.
"Nervous?" Lorelai asked.
* Does she know about me and jess's kiss? NO of course she doesn't. How would she find out? * she began to get nervous "Nervous? No. Should I be?"
"No."
"Then why did I ask if I was nervous?" she wonder out load.
"I don't know. I'm nervous."
"I though you said there's nothing to be nervous about."
"No I said you shouldn't be nervous. I should." Lorelai corrected.
"I see." Rory laughed and handed her mother a tic tac.
"What? I need it?"
"No. I was just offering." She popped the unwanted tic tac in her mouth. "Go in already."
Lorelai reached reluctantly for the handle. "Just remember you're doing it for the coffee." With that she pulled the door open and stepped in. She looked around uncomfortable for a minute, it had been a long time since either of them had set foot in Luke's. After a few seconds Rory took the control and pushed her mother towards the counter, where they each took a stool.
"Hey Luke. Long time no see." Rory smiled as Luke looked up from his counter washing job.
"Well I haven't seen you a while. How was Washington?"
"Fine." she replied politely. "I really missed being home with Mom though. Right mom?"
"What? Oh yeah." she answered. "It's been a while Luke."
"Yep. Coffee?"
"Yep. Make it two."
"It'll kill ya."
"I'll die a happy women." Luke held back a smile and went to get her coffee.
"See that wasn't so hard." Rory nudged her.
"I brought 3 coffees. Two for you and one for Rory." Luke told them.
"Thanks." Both girls smiled.
"Oh my God. Do you know what this is?" Lorelai beamed.
"Coffee."
"Heaven." She correct take a huge sip of coffee. "God that's good!! I've missed you." she told the coffee before taking another sip.
"I'm surprised she made it this long." Luke told Rory, as they watch Lorelai drift into her own little world. Rory's eyes peered out the window, searched to diner and stopped on the doorway leading to Luke's apartment. "Jess isn't here! He went out with his girlfriends Shane."
"Girlfriend?" Rory questioned trying to hide her frown with a fake smiled.
"Yeah He should be back soon if you wanna see him."
"I don't want to see him!" she answered in a snappy voice. "I don't care what's doing."
"Okk!" Luke didn't know what to say.
"Sweetie what's wrong? A few weeks ago Jess was one of your best friends and now you don't care." Lorelai said forgetting her love affair with the coffee cup for a minute. "Did i miss something? Aren't you the same Rory who defended him after breaking....."
"Fracturing." Luke corrected
"Fracturing your wrist."
"Hair line fracture" He corrected again and Lorelai gave him a look
"The some Rory who skipped school and missed my graduation to visit Jess in New York..... ohhh." Lorelai stopped.
"What?"
"Nothing." she smiled. "I just got a craving for some more coffee." she lied.
"Well speak of the devil." Luke spoke point to Jess who was standing outside making out with Shane yet again.
Rory turned, rolled her eyes and then turned back around to face Luke again. "Sickening isn't it?" she scoffed.
"You said it not me." he swiped the cloth over the counter one more time and walked away, as Jess entered the diner.
"Aren't you going to invite you little friend in?" Rory growled, her back facing Jess.
"No she had to go to work."
"I didn't know we had a stripe club in Stars Hallow. Or does she have to make the long trip all the way to Hartford every day." she shot back.
"For your information she works at the gas station."
"Oh much better. Are you sure about the club thing i mean you do see her on the week ends don't you?"
"Ha. Ha. ha." he pulled his jacket off. "I'm going up stairs."
"Before you go.. do you have change for a 20 or did you use all your ones on her?"
"What is your problem!" Jess yelled.
"Oh i think that you know exactly what my problem is."
"Hey I'm not gonna stand here and take this. I can't deal with this, i think I'll act like you! I'll RUN AWAY! Take the easy way out." he retorted. He could feel Rory's death stare burn through him.
"So how long have you and Shane been going out 2, 3 hours. I'm sure she's not the kind of girl to kiss like that the first hour of the relationship, maybe the 2nd or 3rd right."
"Hey at least she's not the kinda girl who kiss like that when she not even going out with the guy!"
"That is not fair Jess!" she stood from her stool in a fit of anger.
"I'm going up stairs." he announced.
"Don't walk away when we're fighting." she yelled.
He stopped just before climbing the first step. "Rory..." he turned his head to look into her eyes. "How's Dean?" was all he said before continuing up the stairs.
"Urghhh!" she screamed in frustration and stormed up the stairs, leaving Lorelai and Luke, who were quite amazed by the argument.
"More Coffee?" Luke questioned holding the pot up to Lorelai, who held her cup out
*UPSTAIRS*
Jess sat silently, his head phones over is ears, music blasting and book in hand. Rory flung the door open and stepped inside. "What is your problem?" she yelled.
Jess looked up from his book then back down. "Sorry can't hear you." he pointed to his head phones. Rory rushed over and ripped them off his head. "Hey give those back."
"No!" she dropped them on the coffee table. Jess grabbed the cord and pulled them back towards himself. "Will you stop!" she yelled up plugging the head phone this times and throwing them across the room. "We need to talk!"
"I think we've done enough of that for tonight." he stood and shoved his book onto a shelf.
"No we haven't!"
"Yes we have!"
"NO" she yelled and pushed him down on the couch. "Sit."
"NO!" he shot straight up.
"God! Why are you being like this?" she asked.
"Me?? You're the one who gave me attitude as soon as i walked in the door."
"Well I'm sorry if i seem a little upset, but i think i have a right to when i come home and find kiss that.... that..."
"Shane."
"Whatever." she growled. "How do you think that made me feel?"
"Oh about as great as i felt when you kissed me and then left for Washington without say so much as good bye!"
"Jess.. i was confused. I'm sorry." She yelled.
"What about when i get to watch you and Dean share one of those cute little pecks. You know, those just reak passion, how could you stand it." he ask sarcaticaly.
"This is all wrong. I didn't want it to be this way." trying to hold her tears from stream down her face.
"Don't cry!" he ordered knowing he wouldn't be able to take it if he made her cry.
"I'm not.. i'm not cry." she struggled. She couldn't hold it in anymore and burst into tears. Her legs gave out and she began to collapse, falling into Jess's waiting arms.
"shh." he whispered as he kneed to the floor, her trembling body weighing against him. "Rory.. I'm.."
"Stop. Ok Just stop pretending that you care." she screamed through her tears. "Just stop." she whispered once more, before pulled herself up and running out the door. She flew down the stairs with Jess on her tail. She ran right past her mother and Luke, tears staining her face. She threw open the door and ran faster then she ever had in her life. Jess was just seconds behind as he too made his way down the stairs and to the diner door. "Rory!!" he called, but she was long gone. "Damn it!" he slammed the door back and allowed it to fly shut, before walking back up stairs.
"I should go." Lorelai sighed not knowing what to say.
"Coffee to go." Luke offered knowing she would need it in what seemed like would be a stressful situation.
The story starts the day after Rory is back from Washington. She is upset after seeing Jess with that girl.(*Rory never told Lorelai about the kiss or her feelings for Jess) Lorelai and Luke have no idea what happened. All they know is that Jess and Rory are angry and they are determined to make them get along.
bChapter 1: The fight/b
"Mom!" Rory called as she enter the front door of her small two bedroom home. "Anybody home," she took off her jacket and hung it on the coat hook by the door then grabbed her bag and headed down the hall to her room. Carefully opening her book bag she pulled out her books. It was her first day back a school and she couldn't get over seeing Jess and the girl kiss the day before. She shook her head and opened her book trying to get home out of her mind, she had decide to stay with Dean yesterday, but why couldn't she get Jess out of her thoughts. She was interrupted by the sound of front door.
"Rory!" Lorelai called hauling a huge basket of fruit into the kitchen
"Hey stranger." Rory joked as she enter the kitchen and grabbed and apple from the basket the Lorelai had placed on the counter. She grabbed another apple and threw it to Lorelai, who in return threw it back. "Too healthy?" Rory joked. "Where'd you get the basket from?"
Sookie. It your welcome home present."
Taking one last bite of the apple, she threw it in the trash. "Nothing says welcome home like a basket of fruit."
"You said it." Lorelai laughed and planted herself in a kitchen chair.
"So.. it was weird being back.
"I'll bet Hey idea"
Rory pulled open the snack cabinet and took out a bag of chips ahoy cookies.
"That's my girl. The Gilmore girls don't eat healthy food!" Lorelai was so happy to have Rory home. It was lonely without her.
"What's your idea?"
"Well, i was thinking ... now go with me here cause this is different. We should go to Luke's and get coffee."
"Ouuu."
"Ouu what's the ouu why the ouuu?"
"Nothing. It just ... aren't you and Luke fighting?"
"Yes, but I'm having a coffee with draw! I'm gone cold turkey for 5 months."
"Mom it's only been a few weeks."
"It seems longer." She slammed her head on the kitchen table. "Come on. You can be my excuse!"
"Ah ha!" Rory held up her finger. "So now the true reason for you wanting me home so bad comes out! You're using me for the coffee."
"Hey addiction can make you do crazy things." she joked.
"So can love." Rory whispered softly to herself and then made a decision that she knew she would regret. "Fine let go."
"Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I knew i loved you."
"Yes I was born so you could drink coffee." She grabbed Lorelai purse from the counter and handed it to her. "Don't they make a patch for this?"
"Nope I already checked."
As the girls approached the diner they could see Luke scrubbing the counters. There was hardly anyone in there, but that wasn't anything new at this time of day.
"Nervous?" Lorelai asked.
* Does she know about me and jess's kiss? NO of course she doesn't. How would she find out? * she began to get nervous "Nervous? No. Should I be?"
"No."
"Then why did I ask if I was nervous?" she wonder out load.
"I don't know. I'm nervous."
"I though you said there's nothing to be nervous about."
"No I said you shouldn't be nervous. I should." Lorelai corrected.
"I see." Rory laughed and handed her mother a tic tac.
"What? I need it?"
"No. I was just offering." She popped the unwanted tic tac in her mouth. "Go in already."
Lorelai reached reluctantly for the handle. "Just remember you're doing it for the coffee." With that she pulled the door open and stepped in. She looked around uncomfortable for a minute, it had been a long time since either of them had set foot in Luke's. After a few seconds Rory took the control and pushed her mother towards the counter, where they each took a stool.
"Hey Luke. Long time no see." Rory smiled as Luke looked up from his counter washing job.
"Well I haven't seen you a while. How was Washington?"
"Fine." she replied politely. "I really missed being home with Mom though. Right mom?"
"What? Oh yeah." she answered. "It's been a while Luke."
"Yep. Coffee?"
"Yep. Make it two."
"It'll kill ya."
"I'll die a happy women." Luke held back a smile and went to get her coffee.
"See that wasn't so hard." Rory nudged her.
"I brought 3 coffees. Two for you and one for Rory." Luke told them.
"Thanks." Both girls smiled.
"Oh my God. Do you know what this is?" Lorelai beamed.
"Coffee."
"Heaven." She correct take a huge sip of coffee. "God that's good!! I've missed you." she told the coffee before taking another sip.
"I'm surprised she made it this long." Luke told Rory, as they watch Lorelai drift into her own little world. Rory's eyes peered out the window, searched to diner and stopped on the doorway leading to Luke's apartment. "Jess isn't here! He went out with his girlfriends Shane."
"Girlfriend?" Rory questioned trying to hide her frown with a fake smiled.
"Yeah He should be back soon if you wanna see him."
"I don't want to see him!" she answered in a snappy voice. "I don't care what's doing."
"Okk!" Luke didn't know what to say.
"Sweetie what's wrong? A few weeks ago Jess was one of your best friends and now you don't care." Lorelai said forgetting her love affair with the coffee cup for a minute. "Did i miss something? Aren't you the same Rory who defended him after breaking....."
"Fracturing." Luke corrected
"Fracturing your wrist."
"Hair line fracture" He corrected again and Lorelai gave him a look
"The some Rory who skipped school and missed my graduation to visit Jess in New York..... ohhh." Lorelai stopped.
"What?"
"Nothing." she smiled. "I just got a craving for some more coffee." she lied.
"Well speak of the devil." Luke spoke point to Jess who was standing outside making out with Shane yet again.
Rory turned, rolled her eyes and then turned back around to face Luke again. "Sickening isn't it?" she scoffed.
"You said it not me." he swiped the cloth over the counter one more time and walked away, as Jess entered the diner.
"Aren't you going to invite you little friend in?" Rory growled, her back facing Jess.
"No she had to go to work."
"I didn't know we had a stripe club in Stars Hallow. Or does she have to make the long trip all the way to Hartford every day." she shot back.
"For your information she works at the gas station."
"Oh much better. Are you sure about the club thing i mean you do see her on the week ends don't you?"
"Ha. Ha. ha." he pulled his jacket off. "I'm going up stairs."
"Before you go.. do you have change for a 20 or did you use all your ones on her?"
"What is your problem!" Jess yelled.
"Oh i think that you know exactly what my problem is."
"Hey I'm not gonna stand here and take this. I can't deal with this, i think I'll act like you! I'll RUN AWAY! Take the easy way out." he retorted. He could feel Rory's death stare burn through him.
"So how long have you and Shane been going out 2, 3 hours. I'm sure she's not the kind of girl to kiss like that the first hour of the relationship, maybe the 2nd or 3rd right."
"Hey at least she's not the kinda girl who kiss like that when she not even going out with the guy!"
"That is not fair Jess!" she stood from her stool in a fit of anger.
"I'm going up stairs." he announced.
"Don't walk away when we're fighting." she yelled.
He stopped just before climbing the first step. "Rory..." he turned his head to look into her eyes. "How's Dean?" was all he said before continuing up the stairs.
"Urghhh!" she screamed in frustration and stormed up the stairs, leaving Lorelai and Luke, who were quite amazed by the argument.
"More Coffee?" Luke questioned holding the pot up to Lorelai, who held her cup out
*UPSTAIRS*
Jess sat silently, his head phones over is ears, music blasting and book in hand. Rory flung the door open and stepped inside. "What is your problem?" she yelled.
Jess looked up from his book then back down. "Sorry can't hear you." he pointed to his head phones. Rory rushed over and ripped them off his head. "Hey give those back."
"No!" she dropped them on the coffee table. Jess grabbed the cord and pulled them back towards himself. "Will you stop!" she yelled up plugging the head phone this times and throwing them across the room. "We need to talk!"
"I think we've done enough of that for tonight." he stood and shoved his book onto a shelf.
"No we haven't!"
"Yes we have!"
"NO" she yelled and pushed him down on the couch. "Sit."
"NO!" he shot straight up.
"God! Why are you being like this?" she asked.
"Me?? You're the one who gave me attitude as soon as i walked in the door."
"Well I'm sorry if i seem a little upset, but i think i have a right to when i come home and find kiss that.... that..."
"Shane."
"Whatever." she growled. "How do you think that made me feel?"
"Oh about as great as i felt when you kissed me and then left for Washington without say so much as good bye!"
"Jess.. i was confused. I'm sorry." She yelled.
"What about when i get to watch you and Dean share one of those cute little pecks. You know, those just reak passion, how could you stand it." he ask sarcaticaly.
"This is all wrong. I didn't want it to be this way." trying to hold her tears from stream down her face.
"Don't cry!" he ordered knowing he wouldn't be able to take it if he made her cry.
"I'm not.. i'm not cry." she struggled. She couldn't hold it in anymore and burst into tears. Her legs gave out and she began to collapse, falling into Jess's waiting arms.
"shh." he whispered as he kneed to the floor, her trembling body weighing against him. "Rory.. I'm.."
"Stop. Ok Just stop pretending that you care." she screamed through her tears. "Just stop." she whispered once more, before pulled herself up and running out the door. She flew down the stairs with Jess on her tail. She ran right past her mother and Luke, tears staining her face. She threw open the door and ran faster then she ever had in her life. Jess was just seconds behind as he too made his way down the stairs and to the diner door. "Rory!!" he called, but she was long gone. "Damn it!" he slammed the door back and allowed it to fly shut, before walking back up stairs.
"I should go." Lorelai sighed not knowing what to say.
"Coffee to go." Luke offered knowing she would need it in what seemed like would be a stressful situation.