A/N: Hello and thank you to anyone who is reading this! This is my first Gilmore Girls fanfic and I'm kind of nervous about this! It's going to cover Rory & Jess as she's finishing up the campaign trail and then continue from there, there will probably be some Luke/Lorelai included eventually, but not too much. Here's the first chapter, it's pretty short, more of an introduction and the others will probably be longer. POV right now is Rory but that will vary in different chapters. I have ideas that could take this story pretty far so please review and let me know if you like it or any improvements/ ideas! Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Gilmore Girls or anything affiliated with it, unless you count the DVD's…

Chapter 1: Safe to Say

As the bus sped along the highway Rory stared out the window, happy to see some towns names that she was familiar with for the first time in weeks. Traveling had been exciting, but almost a year of living in and out of hotel rooms had taken its toll. She was relieved that the campaign was just a few weeks away from the end, with a few more stops in the northeast on the way to their final week in Washington DC.

She should have been online researching more job opportunities for when this was all really over, but she was too wrapped up in her own thoughts and the blank pro/con list sitting in a notebook on her lap. She saw a sign ahead: "Philadelphia 50 miles." She had about an hour to decide. Her last departure from that city more than 2 years before replayed in her mind. He had always been the one to do the hurting, but that time, it had been her. She had crushed him. She could still see still see the way it had been reflected his eyes as she walked out, in the way his shoulders slumped for the first time since he had seen her.

She wanted to explain, to tell him that she never meant to hurt him. That she had thought she loved Logan but realized much later that she had really been wrong. Yes she had gone back to Yale but she wasn't truly herself, it had taken a little while but eventually she had rediscovered herself again. This, she knew, was safe to say. It was an honest apology and she hoped he could understand. But there was something else she wanted to tell him, and it definitely wasn't safe.

She wanted to tell him why she couldn't go through with their kiss, with really cheating. To confess that when he kissed her, she was taken aback by the feelings that had so easily come over her. A night of revenge was all she sought after, but when they kissed, she felt safe and excited. But more importantly, she had felt the hope in his lips. She knew if they had gone any farther it only would've led to confusion for all and hurt for someone, so she left.

"Philadelphia 30 miles." She was rapidly running out of time and distance. Anxiously she picked up her pen and looked down at the chart, its perfectly straight line down the center mocking her as it was surrounded by white. She closed her eyes and desperately tried to think of a con, a reason not to go, but there was only one standing out. The possibility of saying too much, revealing what she had thought about in her time on the road. At the same time, one pro seemed to rise out of all of her thoughts to onto the page, that she would finally be able to live with herself knowing that she had tried to fix it. To mend their relationship, if it could even be called that anymore, back into some kind of friendship, a mutual respect and civility to each other. The other pro's were screaming in her head but she chose to ignore them, she was just being emotional, there was no other reason for them. In what must have been the shortest pro/con list Rory Gilmore ever made, she realized that this was something she had to do.