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Picking up immediately after the final scene of A Year in the Life, Rory finds herself pregnant with Logan's child and searching for solid ground, all while circling back to the one constant she's never been able to shake: Jess, the love she never could truly let go of.
Told across seven years in a traditional seven-season style, this is the story of navigating motherhood, co-parenting with Logan, and finding each other again when everything else is falling apart. But it's also about the patterns we inherit and whether two people can finally break toxic cycles, learning to let each other in and trusting that this time might actually be different.
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Life is chaotic in the Gilmore-Danes-Mariano family. Jess is in middle school, which is never a fun time for anyone. But it's not the only struggle he has. It's tough being in a blended family where no one else shares your name and no one quite looks like you. Where everyone adores your siblings more than you.
Part 2 to Of Uncles and Nephews, but can be read independently as well.
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- Part 2 of Family life
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It's a fair exchange if you're deaf, dumb, and blind... by jesusmarymotherofchrist
Fandoms: Gilmore Girls (TV 2000)
06 Dec 2025
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It's been a summer since they both invited themselves over to Rory's house- now starting their senior year, Paris and Jess find themselves drawn to each other by circumstance. Jess hadn't intended to get a job in a Hartford bookstore, but Doose had made sure nobody in Stars Hollow would take him on. Paris is doing research for an extracurricular project and realises Jess might be the missing piece.
Set in the beginning of season 3, runs parallel to the show. Inspired by Paris and Jess' dynamic in 'There's The Rub'
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A Christmas centered oneshot that takes place post-canon events of season 7!
When Rory returns home from New York to enjoy a christmas in Stars Hollow, the last person she's expecting to run into at Doose's Market is Dean Forester and his new fiance. Vulnerable and insecure about her recent break up with Logan Huntzberger, Rory reacts just a little impulsively to Dean's rude comments about her having to go stag to the annual Stars Hollow Winter Dance.
Rory's confirmation that she does, in fact, have a date to the dance leaves her floundering to find a potential suitor before the day of the dance. Luckily for her, a certain author is already planning on attending the event with his little sister. In the spirit of the season, what's two dates instead of one?
A christmas fake-dating, canon-divergent literati fic in which Rory's impulsive grocery store lie turns into a night full of town gossip, confrontations, comedic backstories, and mistletoe.
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- Part 1 of Merry Christmas, Baby!
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Starts near the end of s1 ep12, Mrs Kim arrives slightly later at Luke’s meaning Luke has a chance to ask out Lorelai. This story will follow as their relationship progresses and will use a lot of structure from episodes of the show.
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- Part 1 of All About the Timing
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Literati one-shot. AYITL canon aside from what I've changed. a short but satisfying reimagining of some events in "Fall".
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Elizabeth, Beth, Gilmore. Born one minute before Rory and together they have tackled growing up in a small, quaint and somewhat kooky Stars Hollow.
Now they are teenagers, wading through life with their mother as their best friend. Beth is embracing her love for STEM while Rory finds it hard to even get a footing at Chilton. Cute boys and family drama make the path to adulthood twist and turn in unexpected ways, together they hope that they will make it to college in one sane piece.
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Ten years after A Year in the Life, Rory Gilmore has sworn off relationships to raise her daughter, Ivy, in the same man-free household her mother once created for her. As the next generation takes its first steps toward careers and love, the season sets the stage for new stories while promising longtime fans the closure they’ve been waiting for. By the finale, Rory will choose her forever partner, and the identity of her daughter’s father will be revealed.
Episode 1 now complete!
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The secrets Jess Mariano kept buried by Shelbswashere
Fandoms: Gilmore Girls (TV 2000), Scream (Movies)
18 Oct 2025
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Liz never told Luke what trouble Jess got into before he was sent away. Never told him it wasn’t the first time she had sent him away. Didn’t tell him that a year previously she had sent him to Woodsboro, California to live with his cousin Sidney Prescott. At fifteen turning sixteen Jess was dragged into a serial killers game and lived. His mother blamed him.
When he arrived to Luke’s he was angry and closed off. Picking fights and getting into trouble, because the worst had already happened and he lived through it. The first time he left town hadn’t been to build a relationship with his estranged father but instead because Sidney called. Ghostface was back.
With more friends dead and too many close calls he returned to the girl he loved. But like all good things in his life it didn’t last. He fled again. The town thinks they have got rid of him for good. Until they got the call. Jess was hurt, badly. And tapes were found. Ghostface had been filming from the start.
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Rory is turning seventeen and the most recent town resident gets more involved than anyone would expect in the celebration.
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Sometime after his mothers wedding, Jess circles around some dark thoughts and can't seem to get away.
This is Jess hitting rock bottom.
And how his Uncle helps him through it.
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Jess paused and let out a huff of breath, his hair falling in his eyes. "Why don't you just tell on me and make me go home?"
Lorelai's mouth twitched upwards and her eyes softened as she looked at the boy in front of her. "Cause," she said, "for whatever reason, you don't want to. And I know what that feels like. So I'm not gonna force you."
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Jess Mariano comes to Stars Hollow several years earlier and has a strange yet fateful meeting with Lorelai Gilmore.
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Life’s hard when you're four and your mommy says you're gonna go on a nice trip to your uncle’s house but then disappears and leaves you there.
Luke has just settled after his father's passing when his good-for-nothing sister decides to abandon her kid with him. Luke doesn't know anything about kids, so he turns to the only person he knows with a kid of similar age. And maybe he wants something more than just parenting advice from her.
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- Part 1 of Family life
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Dean confesses his love to Jess.
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He was supposed to be thousands of miles away in California, yet he’s standing there in the snow, and all the things Rory never said are rushing back with the cold.
Jess always ran. Maybe this time, she won’t let him.Alternate ending to S4, EP 13 where when after running off, Jess finally confronts Rory and they have a real talk.
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'Cause I wanna find tomorrow with you, baby by strawberryfields_13
Fandoms: Gilmore Girls (TV 2000)
01 Jun 2025
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Takes place post cannon. Paris and Jess got together a little over two years ago and are now living together in Philadelphia. With Jess working on his second novel and Paris at Penn law school, how will their past and future affect their relationship?
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When Jess returns to Stars Hollow, he feels like he has lost everything. His health, his relationship, his career, his sense of self - all gone down the drain in the dramatic, tumultuous final year of his twenties. Now thirty, temporarily living in the room above his uncle's diner, Jess is looking for a more permanent place to stay. On a whim, he follows an advert on the bulletin board at the local market, and finds himself at the door of Dean Forester - former rival, former annoyance, secret one-night-stand.
The years have shaped Dean into a quiet, reserved man, who's become just as unpopular with the townsfolk as Jess. For lack of better options on both sides, they decide to make this arrangement work, in spite of their very troubled past, their high-school conflict over Rory, and one drunken night spend together years ago. Somehow, Jess learns to open up about his past, and figures out what turned Dean into the person he is today, and in untangling their grievances, they somehow end up entangled with each other. -
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Jess has been really turning things around lately, he’s stopped smoking, got his GED, and…he’s opened up about some things to Luke, Rory, and even Lorelai. Even better, Jess and Rory are together, they’re happy, and Rory’s about to go to Yale, and Jess is about to go to Stars Hollow Community College. It seems like everything is perfect…until Shane corners him and tries to dig her claws back into him.
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- Part 2 of in notes in the margins
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I want to be good, life's just not letting me by kiavwrites
Fandoms: Gilmore Girls (TV 2000)
16 May 2025
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Jess has really been trying to turn things around after coming back to Stars Hollow. And he’d even say it’s going pretty well, that is, until he blacks out in front of Rory and Lorelai from hiding a little fever. As if things could get worse, it just takes one slip of his stupid tongue to reveal everything that he’s tried so hard to hide for 19 years.
(AU where Luke convinces Jess to come back to Stars Hollow after the end of Season 3)
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- Part 1 of in notes in the margins
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"All of this to say, Jess knows that had he sincerely asked her to keep him there, if he’d promised her they’d sort things out, God, if he’d actually looked her in the eyes when they’d said their goodbyes, then she would’ve shred up the tickets right then and there. But the truth is, he didn’t, and so she didn’t. His mother made her bed and she can lie in it.
He is five days into being fifteen, and a bit fucking sick of everything if he’s being honest."
or: Jess is sent to Stars Hollow a little bit earlier and this changes everything.