A/N: This is the last chapter, you guys. Thanks for sticking with me through it all and for my other stories. Thanks for the reviews and feedback. It's meant so much. We'll see what the future holds :)

Note: This chapter (aside from the flashbacks) is set a year after the previous chapter. I wanted a sense of closure and to wrap the story up in a nice, happier ending than we got for them the last two times GG ended. I hope you all like it.

2009

"Lane!"

Rory beamed as she noticed her best friend in the crowd. The girl quickly turned around and she saw that beside her was Zach as well as their two year old twin boys, Steve and Kwan.

"Rory!" Lane's face transformed into a huge smile as she saw her friend.

Lane whispered something to her husband and he nodded. She began to race towards Rory through the residents of Stars Hollow.

As soon as they reached each other, the two of them embraced into a hug. Both laughed, excited to see the other. When they pulled apart, Lane asked, "Did you just get here?"

Rory nodded. "This is my second stop. I dropped my stuff off at Mom's and came right here."

"This is so exciting!" Lane gushed. "We haven't seen you in so long!"

"I'm back now," Rory laughed lightly at her friend. "I got everything all wrapped up. I packed up all of my stuff. I just need to find someplace to live now."

"Stay here," Lane urges. "You know you're always welcome here."

"I know," she smiled. "I probably will, honestly. I just got to get my plans ready. I don't think I considered what I'd be doing once the election stuff was all over."

"But he won," she smiled.

"He won," she nodded, smile still in place. "That's why it took me so long to get home. I'm just happy to be back."

"Well, look out around you," Lane gestured. "All of these people are gonna explode with happiness when they see you're here."

"Is my mom here?" she wondered as she looked out at the sea of people.

"Probably somewhere," Lane looked around her, too.

Someone caught Rory's eye as she searched for Lorelai. She couldn't see their face but something about him stood out. She grabbed Lane's arm and turned her to the same direction. "Who's that?"

Lane let out a small laugh. "You don't know?"

"I've been here less than a hour," she replied. "How would I know?"

"Small town?" she suggested.

Rory shook her head. She looked at the man that stood not that far away from her but far enough that he wasn't right there. "He seems familiar."

"He should," she half snorted another laugh. "That's Jess."

"Jess?" she gasped.

He must have heard her because he turned. Her mouth dropped when she saw his face. He looked so grown-up. There was something different about him and it wasn't just the way he filled out his shirt.

Right then, Jess began to walk over to the two of them. On his face, a smile formed. "Hey. Didn't expect to see you here."

"I just got back," Rory answered. "You look good."

"You look good, too," his words mirrored those from the Gilmore driveway years earlier.

Lane looked between them. The two of them stared at each other for a moment too long so she cut in, "I'm here, too."

"Hey, Lane," Jess said and it broke her out of her trance.

"Sorry," Rory laughed.

"No big deal," she held her hands up in surrender. "I think I should let you two catch up anyway. I'm gonna go check on my husband. Make sure he hasn't lost the kids."

She waved to Rory and nodded to Jess. He told her he'd see her later which made Rory wonder.

"It's so weird she has a husband and kids," Jess commented when she was gone.

"Tell me about it," she agreed with a small laugh.

"So what are you doing here?" he asked. "I thought you had campaign stuff to finish still."

"Just finished, actually," she said proudly. "Brought my stuff home. I'm officially unemployed."

"Congratulations," he tapped her arm. "So what's next?"

She let out a big sigh. "First, I have to figure out where I'm gonna live. It's strange. I've been on the road for almost two years and don't actually have a place to live."

He nodded. "Well, if worse comes to worst, you could write a Kerouac sequel about that life."

This made her laugh again. "I doubt it would be as interesting."

"You do one and I'll do one," he teased.

Rory can't fight the smile off of her face. She doesn't know why exactly but she thinks it's just Jess. The conversation almost didn't matter . The being around him again just made her comfortable.

"So it's been a while," she finally said. "Since we actually saw each other and not just through emails."

He nodded and shoved his hands into his pockets. "A lots been going on. Sorry I didn't get to come to the speech in Philly."

She waved it off. "You had a business to run. You're excused."

"It would have been nice to catch up," he said but his eyes seemed different. She couldn't pinpoint what it was.

"We're both here now," she suggested. "We can talk about everything. I can ask you what some of those comments about my articles mean."

"What comments?" he teased again, back to his former sarcasm.

"You know which," she replied. "Come on. I want face-to-face updates about Truncheon and everything else."

"All right, Gilmore," he said, smile plastered on his face. "I'll buy you a coffee."

To his surprise, Rory looped her arm through Jess'. "The magic words."

Later that night, Rory told the story of catching up to Lane. When her friend finished, she just smiled and said, "I think you two would still make a really sweet agoraphobic couple."

…

Rory paced back and forth on the living room floor. She bit her nails nervously and every so often, she'd glance at the front door of her home. Finally, the key unlocked and the door swung open and she sighed in relief.

Her feet rushed her towards the door in anticipation. When she saw she was right in her guess, she said, "Finally."

"There was a lot of traffic," Lorelai explained as she took her jacket off.

"Couldn't you have gotten a police escort or something?" she half-joked.

Lorelai laughed once. "Sure. I guess I could have told the cops my daughter was freaking out over a reason I don't know yet and I have to get over there."

"Sorry," Rory sighed and practically slouched down onto the couch. "I'm just…"

"Freaking out," her mother finished for her. "You mentioned that on the phone."

"Right," she nodded.

"Now," Lorelai sighed. "Are you gonna tell me why exactly you're freaking out or is that meant to be vague?"

"I'm late," she sighed.

"Late," she repeated. "As in - "

"Is there any other kind that really matters?" she tried to half smile but it fell.

"Oh, sweetie," Lorelai sat down beside her daughter. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"Because you heard me," she answered. "I was barely functioning when I called you."

"I don't understand," Lorelai commented. "You were more able to tell me when you were pregnant when Tori than when you're late now."

"I know," Rory agreed. "It makes no sense and that just makes me freak out more."

"Have you mentioned anything to Jess?" she asked.

Rory shook her head. "No. Not yet. I feel like a jumble of nerves every time I try to say something to him."

"Is it because - " Lorelai paused then continued. "Do you not want a baby with him?"

"That's not it," she shook her head even faster this time.

"Then what is it?" she wondered. "Have the two of you talked about it?"

"A little," she told her. "It's just - if I am, then it's real and I'm terrified."

Lorelai chuckled. "I have news for you, sweets. Look at your hand. Isn't it real already?"

Rory looked down at her left hand not to see what she'd find but out of habit. For the past three months, she'd looked down at that hand a lot. A certain finger, to be exact. She smiled to herself as she looked at not only the diamond on her finger but the gold band, too.

"Yeah," her smile widened. "It's real."

…

2020

Rory couldn't sleep. Jess, on the other hand, was fast asleep and light snores escaped him. She watched him quietly as she took in the sight of him.

Sometimes she found it hard to believe that he was with her. She couldn't imagine a man like him, one who worked so hard to be more than his past, would want to be with someone who had failed him in their teen years. Jess had argued before that he caused a lot of the problems but she knew she had her fair share, too.

As she watched him, she realized how truly happy she felt with him. Rory had never experienced happiness like this before. She'd been happy but this was different. The kind of different that told you this person was the one.

Her overworking mind began his trail down a dangerous road. She began to wonder about the future. Despite his words, she was never sure of what was going to happen. She wanted a definite answer to it, 3 o'clock in the morning be damned.

As if she willed it to happen, Jess stirred in his sleep. His sleepy eyes awoke and he looked down at his girlfriend, her head snuggled to his side and left arm laid across his chest. A sleepy smile appeared on his face.

"Can't sleep again?" he asked, his voice half husky, half sleepy.

She shook her head slightly which made her hair move across his chest. "No. Just thinking."

"Anything in particular?" he found himself asking.

She smiled softly. "I was thinking about us, actually."

"Us?" he wondered and sat up a little straighter. "What about us?"

"Jess," she took a deep breath instead of answering. "Do you ever think about the future?"

"Like climate change kind of future or - " he began but her head shake stopped him.

"No," she lightly laughed, nervous. "Our future. You and me. As a couple."

"Oh," he said.

"What does that mean?" she asked, worried. "Oh?"

"I wasn't expecting a 'what are we?' conversation at 3 am is what it means," he replied.

"Do you ever think about it?" she asked him.

"Yeah," he said honestly. "I'd be insane not to."

"Yeah?" she smiled, her head on his t-shirt covered chest as if it were a pillow.

"I thought you knew what this was," he told her. "Me and you. You know I'm here for however long you want me here."

"Good," she let out a relieved sigh. "Not that I doubted. You said it before. I just - sometimes, I think about how you can still get out and go have your own life. How you don't have to be tied down to the two of us."

"Did you forget?" Jess asked. "I'm not tied down anywhere. This is where I want to be."

"So what does that mean?" she asked again. "Are we going to be the kind of couple that even in the old people home are boyfriend and girlfriend? When Tori comes with her kids and their kids, she'll say how that's Mom and her boyfriend?"

Jess moves slightly so he could look at her better. Her head came off of his chest and she laid on her side to look back at him. He looked into her eyes, with nothing but seriousness. "Rory, I love you. I've always loved you. You know that."

"I do," she agreed. "But is that it? Are we just eternally dating?"

"Are you asking me what I think you're asking?" he raised an eyebrow almost as a tease. He knew his heart couldn't handle it if she didn't mean it.

"I thought you were supposed to be the one who did the asking," she joked.

"Suppose I am then," he replied. "Pretend I'm asking you what I thought you were asking. What would you say?"

"I'd say 'you even have to ask'?" she laughed once.

"Let's say I do need to ask," he went on. "As if the topic was briefly mentioned before and you laughed it off. Which, in turn, made me laugh with you because what else could I do?"

Rory really looked into his eyes now and swallowed hard. "Then, if you were asking what you thought I was asking…I would have to say yes."

"Yes?" he asked her, the urge to fight a smile strong.

"But only if it what's you thought I was asking," she clarified. "Unless it was you asking me if I want more coffee. The answer to that is always yes, too and also if you asked me to - "

Her mouth was silenced by his on hers. His right hand held her face as he deepened the kiss and quieted her ramblings. She relaxed into the kiss, her left arm going back around him even over the covers.

The kiss ended almost as soon as it began. He pulled away slowly, watching her face as he did so. Her eyes were closed and her expression was surprised. He smiled the smile he had fought seconds before.

"Hey, Ror?" he nudged her foot with his under the blankets.

She opened her eyes. "Yeah, Jess?"

"Will you marry me?" he asked her with every ounce of seriousness in him and he felt stripped to his most vulnerable state.

Rory blinked, stunned that he was actually asking the exact question right now in this moment. She shook her head to shake itself back to reality and he almost took that as her answer.

She laughed when she noticed his expression. "That wasn't my answer, I swear! I just needed to shake my head awake. I feel like I'm dreaming."

"So what then?" he wondered. "Will you?"

"Yes," she leaned closer and tried to reach both arms around him. "Yes, I'll marry you."

…

Both Lorelai and Rory turned to the door when they heard it unlock. In walked Jess with a huge smile on his face. When he noticed there was two women before him, not just one, his expression turned into one of surprise.

"Am I interrupting something?" he asked them.

"Of course not," Rory smiled at him as she walked over to greet him. Instinctively, she wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him quickly then hugged him.

Jess hugged her back but remained suspicious that he had just walked into something. Rory pulled out of the hug but kept her arm around him as she turned to face her mother.

"I'm gonna go get that thing we were talking about," Lorelai broke the silence. "Run that errand."

"Good idea," Rory nodded as normal as she could.

"Good to see you, Jess," Lorelai smiled and nodded at him as she passed him to get to the door.

"You, too," he nodded back even more suspicious than ever.

Lorelai grabbed her purse and headed right to the door. The door shut behind her and left the two of them alone.

"What's going on?" Jess turned to Rory.

She sighed and dropped her arm from him. "Nothing. Mom decided to stop by and she had to go pick up something from the store."

"Let's say that sounds like the truth," he said.

"It is," she replied.

"I'm gonna brush aside whatever suspicious activity the two of you are up to for now," Jess went on. "Because I have news."

"News?" she gasped. "What kind of news?"

"The kind of news where my book is getting a bigger release," he explained.

"What?" her excitement grew and she jumped back into his arms then back out to look at him. "But I thought they were doing a limited release like The Subsect."

"They were," he nodded. "But then the book sold out in all the bookstores we put it in."

"Oh my god!" she covered her mouth, ready to burst with excitement.

"It's only been four months since the book came out," he explained. "They said that was pretty quick for a book not as known as mine and an author like me. They want to do twice the amount in the next printing."

"This calls for a celebration," Rory beamed brightly, almost forgetting what was going on with her before Jess had arrived.

"Is that okay?" he asked as she headed to the kitchen. He followed behind her with a concerned look on his face. "I know we haven't talked about something like this but the whole reason the book came out when it did was - "

"The wedding," she finished for him. "But that was months ago and now we can focus on the future. Your bright future."

"They might want a book tour," he told her.

Rory's hand stilled on the refrigerator door. "For how long?"

"I'm not sure," he answered honestly. "It's all speculation for now. Nothing's set aside from the copies being made."

"But I thought that for the first year we were going to stick together," she said.

"I know," Jess agreed. "That's why I just called it news. Wasn't sure if you'd think it was good or bad yet."

"It's definitely not bad," she laughed lightly. "It's good, Jess. Really good."

"Yeah?" a smile broke out on his face.

"Yeah," she agreed as she let go of the fridge and moved closer to him. "The rest, we'll figure out. This ring isn't just fancy decoration, you know. There's a promise behind it."

His smile grew as she held out her left hand in front of him. He looked at the ring that he had placed on her finger seven months ago and the second ring that he'd put there just three months ago. "There's a lot of promises behind it."

"And not one of them small," she looked down at her rings, too.

He took her hand in his and kissed the spot behind her rings. "You're amazing, do you know that?"

"I have a great husband," she beamed, the word falling so easily off her lips.

His heart swelled when he heard it. He continued on anyway. "I love you."

"I love you, too," she kissed him sweetly then rested her arms loosely around his neck. "Which is why I have something I have to tell you, too."

"Is it about your own book?" he asked because he knew she was almost done editing.

"Not yet, no," she laughed but her nerves erased any trace of humor.

"Tori?" he asked.

"No," she shook her head. "She's still with Logan this week."

"What is it?" he held her close to him. "Does it have to do with your Mom and whatever the two of you are up to?"

"Yes," she shakily agreed but didn't continue.

"What is it, Ror?" he asked curiously. "What's going on?"

"Well…" she took a deep breath. Rory couldn't believe she was so nervous. This was Jess. The love of her life. Her husband. She looked down at the floor in hopes to regain her confidence. She wasn't sure why this was so much harder than the first time. "I'm late."

"What?" he asked, not a hundred percent sure he heard her correctly.

"I'm late," she said clearer. "Two weeks late, to be exact."

Jess' eyes froze. His hands gripped her closer. "Wow."

"I know," she sighed. "It's too early and we only just got married. I thought we had more time but maybe we still do. I'm just late. It's not like I'm as young as I used to be. Periods get less predictable as you get older and maybe I'm just skipping a month - "

She's cut off by his lips on hers. It's not a long kiss or even that passionate of one. It's excited and happy.

When they pulled apart, she got a good look at the bright sparkle in his eyes. "So there's a chance you could be pregnant."

"Yes," she agreed. "Maybe. I don't know. Mom went to get me a test. That's what that was."

"But there's a chance," he smiled. "Me and you could have made a baby."

"Possibly," she said, not wanting to say anything too definite.

"This outranks my news," he told her.

"But your news is actually happening," she replied. "We don't know if I am yet."

"Even if you're not," he said. "It means we had a chance. If it doesn't happen this time, we'll just try again."

His smile was infectious. It hadn't left his face since she told him and she couldn't help smiling back at him. "So this is really happening. Either we're pregnant or we're gonna try?"

"If that's what you want," he replied.

The front doorbell rang and broke their moment. They looked at each other for a moment. Rory spoke first. "I thought Mom had a key."

They let go of each other until just their hands held. Jess walked first until he saw a familiar face outside the door through the small window. He opened the door and with a sigh of relief, in walked Lorelai.

"There it is!" she gasped as she entered the house. She looked at the table she had grabbed her purse from before she left. On it, sat her lone keychain with just a key to Rory and Jess' house.

"Did you get it?" Rory asked her mother.

"Oh yeah," she said. "Thank God you had a...store around the corner. I wasn't sure where to look for one."

"Jess knows, Mom," Rory half laughed.

"Oh, now I really have to thank God," she fell into a chair. "I thought I was going to have to keep some kind of charade going on."

"No," Jess shook his head.

"And we're…how do you feel about this?" Lorelai wondered.

Rory looked at Jess then back to her mom. "We're happy about it. If it's happening."

Lorelai smiled softly at her daughter and now son-in-law. She had never expected in all the years she'd known Jess, especially back then in his teen years, would have expected any of this, She was grateful for it and happy that Rory had been right about him.

She handed her daughter the bag in her hand. "Then I guess you should go find out if you're having a mini Fonz or not."

"I don't look like that anymore," Jess objected as his wife took the bag.

She kissed his cheek quickly and smiled. "You did for a little bit back then."

"Not anymore, though," he replied.

"Maybe not," Lorelai grimaced. "But I still don't understand the longer hair look. I didn't understand it at Liz's wedding and I definitely didn't understand it at your own."

"I like it," he offered as explanation.

"Rory?" Lorelai turned to her. "And what do you think about your spouse's hair?"

"I think it looks good," she looked at him, momentarily distracted from her upcoming task. "It looks kind of mature, more so than the gelled pompadour he had in high school."

"That was my look back then," he defended. "It fit what I was going for."

"Right," Lorelai nodded in disbelief.

"I think it looks sexy," Rory leaned closer to whisper but her mother still heard.

Lorelai fake gagged. "Excuse me. I have something caught in my throat."

"You have your taste and I have mine," Rory pointed out.

"Yes, maybe so," her mother agreed. "But your taste needs to go pee on a stick so I can find out if I'm going to be a grandma again. Oh geez. Grandma. Again."

Rory laughed and shook her head. "I'm going, don't worry."

They still heard her laughter as she headed out of the living room and towards the bathroom.

"Gonna need Luke to tell me how young and hot I am when I get back," Lorelai muttered to no one in particular.

"Are you okay with all of this?" Jess broke her out of her thoughts.

Her head snapped up towards him. "Hmm?"

"This," he pointed at the direction Rory had disappeared to. "Me and Rory, maybe having a baby."

Lorelai chuckled. "Oh, junior Danes child, you have much to learn."

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"You can never repeat this to anyone," she pointed at him in all seriousness. "But I accepted you and Rory a long time ago and I accepted you by yourself even longer ago. If I didn't approve, it'd have made no difference but let's say the wedding day would have had a lot more 'You can still get out' statements."

"So if Rory is pregnant…" he began but waited for her to finish.

"Then we will celebrate that one of us is finally not having a child out of wedlock," she replied. "Obviously."

"I don't know whether or not you mean that as a joke," he simply said.

Lorelai smiled happily. "Thank you."

….

"Hair check?"

Lorelai rushed over to her daughter to check her hair. Her soft curls cascaded down perfectly to frame her face while clips held it together. She nodded in contentness. "Looks good."

Rory examined it herself in the mirror before asking the next thing. "Makeup?"

"Magnificent," Lorelai beamed.

"Mom, you're supposed to make sure it isn't too much or too little," Rory pointed out.

"I did it so I know how much there is," she pointed out for herself.

"Where's Grandma?" she asked curiously. "Did she go find April and Lane? What about Paris?"

"I'm sure all of them are on their way," she answered.

"I feel like I should be nervous," Rory half giggled, half smiled. "I mean, I am nervous but I feel like I should be more."

"You're getting married," Lorelai said from behind her.

"I'm getting married," Rory smiled.

"To Jess," Lorelai dragged out his name a beat longer than she had to. "Can you believe it?"

"If you asked me at my Chilton graduation if I would see something like this in my future..." she began shakily. "We've been through so much. It almost feels unreal."

"Are you okay?" Lorelai asked with a hand on her shoulder.

"Yeah," she nodded. "It's just - I can't believe this is happening. After everything me and him went through. This is happening."

"This is good reminiscing right?" Lorelai wondered. "Because if it's not, I'm sure Paris can help us make an escape."

"It's good," she nodded and checked her makeup again in the mirror. "I'm not backing out. I couldn't even if I wanted to. He's…he's what I see what I think about my future. Him and Tori."

"Good," Lorelai nodded in approval. "You know, that's all I ever wanted for you. Something like me and Luke. For you to be as happy as I am around him."

"I am," Rory smiled. "Back then...when we were younger, I thought I knew what love was as a teenager. I thought I loved him. But now I know what it's like to know that I love him."

Lorelai brushed a stray curl away from her daughter's face. "Then let's find your Grandma and your bridal party and get you married."

Rory laughed. "Yes, ma'am."

Lorelai stared at her for a moment. "Okay, I change my mind. You've been around Jess too long and I no longer approve."

"Too late," Rory giggled.

"Keep laughing," she warned. "My wedding toast may include a mention about you marrying your step-cousin."

"You wouldn't dare," Rory gasped.

Lorelai shrugged innocently. "I don't know. I mean, maybe it just slips."

Rory's jaw dropped as the door opened and in walked Lane and Emily. They were both already dressed in their formal wear. Emily wore a simple outfit similar to her own vow renewal all those years ago but in a light periwinkle. Lane, as a bridesmaid, wore a cross between pink and light red dress. Lorelai wore a darker dress to symbolize her as matron of honor.

"Oh my god," Lane gushed as they entered the room.

"What do you think?" Rory stood up from her chair and showed off her dress. It was an off the shoulder, buttons down the back and close to her body fit. There was a small train that pooled near her feet, slightly longer just because her heels weren't on.

Emily's face almost burst into tears. "Rory, you look absolutely gorgeous."

"Really?" she asked in disbelief.

"Jess is gonna die when he sees you," Lane told her.

Rory laughed. "God, I hope not."

"Where's Paris and April?" Lorelai asked them.

"They're on their way," Lane answered. "Jess had to wrangle Matt, Chris and of course, Zach to get ready."

"I'm just surprised he put Zach in the wedding party," Lorelai commented.

"He did it because of me," Lane told her.

"Plus he didn't have enough friends to be groomsmen," Rory added.

"I wanted to give you something before you go out there," Emily cut in. She reached into a pocket and produced a cuff link. "This was your grandfather's."

"Oh, Grandma," Rory sighed sadly as she took them out of the older woman's hand.

"They were his favorite pair," she continued. "I wasn't sure if you had something borrowed or if you were even doing that but I just thought it'd be nice for you to have a part of him with you out there."

"Thank you," she stared down at them. She sniffed softly in the quiet room and then looked up.

"Good thing I sprang for waterproof," Lorelai said as she resisted the urge to wipe her own eye.

…..

"Well?" Lorelai asked as her daughter reappeared from the bathroom.

"It's very hard to pee when you know people are talking about you outside the room," Rory remarked.

Lorelai just laughed. "Would it have helped if we pretended it wasn't about you?"

"No," she shook her head then noticed they were now alone. "Where did Jess go?"

"Kitchen," she nodded towards the offending room. Rory turned to that room and Lorelai followed behind her. "Hey, wait. What did the test say?"

Jess turned at the sound of his mother-in-law's voice. "So? What's the news?"

Rory broke out into a smile. He knew instantly what it said. He put down the glass of water he'd held in his hand and ran to her only to lift her off the ground into a hug.

"Oh my god," Lorelai said above a whisper. "You're pregnant?"

Jess put Rory down and she turned to face her mom. He kept his arm around her waist. She nodded, "That's what it says."

Jess kissed the side of her head with a smile. "So this is really happening."

"I'm gonna make an appointment to make sure it's right," she told them both. "Make sure it's not just a faulty test and a late period."

"Of course," Jess agreed.

"Wow," Lorelai smiled. "I remember this my deepest fear when you two were together as teenagers. It's funny how now I can't imagine any better news."

Rory leaned into Jess contently as he traced a circle on her hip. "Really?"

Her mother nodded. "It's amazing what all you've done has made me okay with."

"Ssh," Rory pouted jokingly. "You're not ruining the atmosphere."

"What's the atmosphere?" Jess asked.

"Happy," Rory confirmed. "A little bit nervous. Not as scared as I was the first time, though."

Jess pulled her closer into his side. "That's exactly how I feel."

Lorelai made a face. "I feel like a third wheel right now. Or am I the fourth?"

"Fourth," Jess told her and Rory laughed.

"Fine," she crossed her arms dramatically. "But you're telling your uncle then."

"I don't think he'll have the reaction you're looking for," Jess told her.

"Maybe not," she agreed. "But it's Luke. Any acknowledgement that either of you has seen the other naked and he will get red faced and speechless."

"We'll lead with a stork story," Jess countered.

Lorelai laughed while she watched Rory giggle. "Good plan. Okay, I guess I like you again."

"When didn't you like me?" he asked.

"My mind is going back and forth right now because you knocked up my daughter," she explained.

"I'm sorry, Emily," he emphasized the name.

"That hurts," the older woman said with a stare. "I changed my mind again."

"Hey, be nice," Rory warned her mother . "That's the father of my unborn baby."

"He started it," she pouted.

"Did not," Jess said.

"Did too," she argued.

"And you," Rory turned to her husband. "You better be nice too or this is the first and last baby."

"Ha!" Lorelai pointed at him.

"Fine," he sighed dramatically.

"Look at that," Lorelai said. "Threaten sex away from him and he agrees. I wish that worked on your uncle."

"TMI," Jess groaned seriously now.

"It's not like I said how he is in bed," she defended.

"Oh, my God," Rory hid her face on Jess' chest.

….

Later that night, Rory and Jess laid in bed but both unable to sleep. Lorelai had gone home after dinner and they promised that when Tori was back from Logan's, they'd make a visit to Stars Hollow. They were going to tell Luke first of the townspeople and made Lorelai promise to keep it quiet. Jess was sure there'd be a voicemail in the morning.

"Hey," Rory touched Jess' leg with her sock covered foot. "You asleep?"

"No," he answered then opened his eyes.

"Thinking about the baby?" she wondered.

"Yeah," he said. "It still feels unreal. Me and you...we made a baby."

"I know," she snuggled closer. "I can't believe it. I know we talked about it some but I didn't expect it already."

He wrapped his arm around her. "Are you okay with that?"

She nodded into his chest. "Yeah, I am. I was terrified at first when my period still hadn't come but now that I took the test, I feel okay. Better than okay, actually."

Jess turned his head to look at her. "Really? You're not still terrified and just saying this for my benefit?"

"No," she half laughed. "Jess, when I first got pregnant with Tori, I was a mess. I had no idea what to do and the idea of childbirth freaked me out. It was you who got me through all of it and to think now, I'm gonna have another baby, this time with you, it feels really nice."

"It does piece together our little unit, don't you think?" he asked with a smirk.

"Yeah," she beamed. "Plus, Tori's gonna be so excited. You remember how happy she was when we told her you were gonna be her stepdad? She's gonna be through the roof."

"I love Tori," he said. "I never want you to think that because this baby will be mine that I love her any less."

"I know that," she kissed him softly. "And Tori will know that, too. You've taken good care of us and you'll take good care of this one, too."

He smiled at her. "I love you so much."

"I love you, too," Rory returned the smile.

They kissed again, not as soft as seconds ago. "You wanna really celebrate?"

She giggled. "Well, it's not like I can get any more pregnant."

"We'll see about that," he challenged.

Now Rory laughed instead. "Jess, do you know how this baby thing works?"

He didn't answer her rhetorical question. "Come on, it'd be fun to pretend anyway."

"Good point," she agreed.

He kissed her again, even deeper this time. She kissed him back just as fiercely. He moved so that he would hover over her.

"You know," he said between kisses. "It's really sexy to think that you're carrying my child right now."

"Oh?" she teased. "Is that so?"

He didn't answer but instead just kissed her again. Rory let herself melt against him as he kissed down her cheeks to her neck. When he made his way to her stomach, he took extra care. It didn't matter that he didn't answer or follow the tease. They had all night and the rest of their lives together. For now, they'd celebrate the family they created - the four of them - and be ready to face the future.

A/N: The End! I hope you all liked it. I know it might seem a bit messy but I really like it. This is where I wanted it to end and instead of dragging it out, I skipped ahead and added some flashbacks to help piece it together. I hope you all have enjoyed reading it as much as I have writing it and reading your reviews. Thanks for all the favorites, reviews, and any recommendations you might have given. Until next time…:)