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Book 2 of the Good Enough series • Seasons: 4 - 7 • While starting college, Theodosia finds herself struggling to manage Weston's Bakery and the Dragonfly Inn while trying to balance her studies. Worst of all, she finds herself falling for a third guy, despite having two boyfriends. At least, her friends are there to catch her if she falls.
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- Part 3 of You Are Good Enough
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What if Tristin never asked Paris out? What if he properly pursued a newly single Rory instead?
“I’ve never dated anyone like you before,” Tristin remarked. “And you just said it yourself. I should date someone with substance.”
“I wasn’t talking about me!”
“Why not? I’m single and you’re single.”
“Because we can’t,” I said.
“You’ve never dated anyone like me before either,” he grinned. “This could be good for both of us.”
“Someone like you?” I said, fighting not to scoff.
“Someone with my amazing looks, who knows how to have a good time.” -
The Other Gilmore || Jess Mariano, Gilmore Girls by thewriters64
Fandoms: Gilmore Girls (TV 2000)
05 Dec 2025
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" We were broken. By life. By others. By our own serious dysfunctions. But we finally found each other, after almost two decades of near misses. Of being so close. And when we finally did come together all of the pieces fit together perfectly, as if all that time, we were being broken so we would be perfect for each other. " -J. Warren Welch-
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Aurora Gilmore and Jess Mariano were two young kids with broken hearts. Two people broken by the
ones that were meant to love, and care for them.But everything changed the night they met, something in both of them had begun to mend.
Something had clicked the moment their eyes met.Something had come alive. A new love had blossomed, they were each other's missing piece.
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After their fun, passionate, wild night together in "Fall," Logan takes a leap, something he hasn't been doing with Rory for years. The results are unexpected and lead them both on different journeys. Will they find their way back to each other again?
This fic is a collaboration between Nangala and sandy_s. Banners for each chapter by sandy_s.
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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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Lorelai reached out and took her hand, pressing their fingers together. Her blue eyes, so like Rory’s own, filled with tears and she smiled. Rory could feel her own answering smile, her own answering joy, and she laughed with relief. The fear that had been clouding her, the panic, gave way suddenly and sharply to joy, and she fell into her mother. Lorelai wrapped her arms around Rory and rocked them, the bear squashed in the middle.
“My baby’s having a baby,” Lorelai whispered, and Rory hummed giddily into the side of her mum’s neck.
“I still don’t know what I’m doing,” she whispered back, but it didn’t feel so heavy anymore.Post AYITL Rory has a lot of decisions to make about what she wants her future to look like, while she simultaneously looks back to write her book.
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Manhattan, 1999. Forced to spend Christmas Eve coaching her father’s fiancée through a too-long labour, Rory is at her wits' end. Her afternoon gets a tad less dim when Logan engages her in conversation, seeking a moment of peace amidst a sister bringing new life into this world and a father who may be on his way out.
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Jess has been more of a father to Rory's baby than Logan could ever be.
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- Part 4 of Ultra's OTP Advent Calendar 2025
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Ellie gathered every bit of courage she had, her little chest rising and falling fast, and finally cracked her eyes open. She blinked hard, adjusting to the light. Her gaze darted around her room. Her rug was scattered with crayons, blocks, Barbie dolls, and a heap of clothes from when Mommy had rushed to change her. On her nightstand sat her water bottle, the book Mommy read to her last night, and a framed photo of her birthday, her with Mommy and Wory, all smiling.
Finally, her gaze lifted to the woman holding her, and the world steadied. Her mommy. Her beautiful, sleepy-eyed mommy, looking down at her with eyes the brightest blue, filled with love so big it made Ellie’s chest ache. Her hair was messy from sleep, curls falling every which way, and freckles dotted her cheeks and neck like little stars Ellie liked to count. Lorelai’s lips curved into a small, patient smile as she waited.
Ellie let out a shaky breath, her little hands rubbing at her eyes. She was home.
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- Part 2 of safe and sound - gilmore girls
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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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And now Rory was alone, with nothing but the sound of the Atlantic ocean washing on the sand and the thought of Jess swimming around in her pounding head.
The cellphone is in her hand before she even knows what to do with it.
She wants, more than anything, in that moment, just to hear his voice.
In which Jess gets a cell phone before 'Last Week Fights, This Week Tights' and it changes everything.
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Everything was perfect. Luke and Lorelai were engaged and begining to plan their wedding; Jess was settling into Stars Hollw; Rory was on the fastrack to Harvard, about to get the father and family she'd always dreamed of.
But with the holidays comes some unexpected consequenses that shake up the entire household and leave nothing guaranteed. How will Luke and Lorelai cope with these changes? And how will relationships be affected, not just between those within the house, but those closest to them also?
Picks up at the end of Better Timing and will follow through the end of season 2/start of season 3.
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- Part 2 of All About the Timing
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“At the still point of the turning world… there the dance is.”
Burnt Norton, by T.S. EliotThey didn’t mean to end up here again—caught between who they were and who they’ve become.
Somewhere in all the noise and the silence, they keep circling the same still point.
Stillness was never really their thing. -
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Dean Forester and Jess Mariano have more than just a shared hatred for one another which keeps them butting heads.
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When Jess Mariano gets paired with Dean Forester for a major school project, they both expect disaster. What neither of them expect is the slow unraveling of old tensions, new understandings, and feelings neither of them have the words for yet.
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Okay so I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but there should be more Jess and Dean fics. Tags will change, so may the rating. They will be fucking... I just can't write it yet.
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and i might be okay but i'm not fine at all. by callmecey
Fandoms: Gilmore Girls (TV 2000)
29 Nov 2025
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A fear she didn’t have the words for follows Lorelai everywhere, always three steps behind until it catches up and stares at her from the mirror of her own motherhood, leaving her horrified and devastated with only one person she can turn to in moments like this.
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This is a AU, one where Jess Mariano never came to Stars Hollow at seventeen, and that single shift sent butterfly effects through everyone’s lives.
Rory walked out of Yale and out of Logan’s life on her twenty-first birthday because she couldn’t recognize herself anymore. Now she’s back home, stripped of her sense of self.
Jess has spent four years on the road living on fumes. At almost twenty-one, out of options, he drives east toward the only place he hasn’t been yet: Stars Hollow.
She’s trying to remember who she is.
He’s trying to figure out if he can be someone at all.
Their lives are about to collide for the first time.
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I Am The Only Being Whose Doom by Continuing_the_Story1
Fandoms: Gilmore Girls (TV 2000), Gilmore Girls RPF, Gilmore Gir
28 Nov 2025
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It never sat right with me how A Year in the Life ended.
The idea of Rory’s pregnancy reveal was compelling — but ending there robbed her of the chance to grow, reflect, and redeem herself. This story picks up where the revival left off, giving Rory that opportunity.
Here, she finally faces the consequences of her choices, the weight of generational patterns, and what it truly means to become her mother’s daughter.
Expect angst, humor, and bittersweet romance. Canon details from A Year in the Life remain intact for context, but the story diverges into a new future: one where Rory Gilmore earns her happy ending — realistically, painfully, and beautifully.